radula
noun
a chitinous band in the mouth of most mollusks, set with numerous, minute, horny teeth and drawn backward and forward over the floor of the mouth in the process of breaking up food.
radular
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a word derived from
radula.
Example Sentences
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Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound.
From Time Magazine Archive
The odontophore is powerfully developed; the radular sac is extraordinarily long, lying coiled in a space between the mass of the liver and the muscular foot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
The mouth leads into the buccal cavity, on the ventral side of which opens the radular caecum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
Shell bulimoid, dextral or sinistral; radular teeth, expanded at their extremities and multicuspidate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Into the pharyngeal cavity open salivary glands and radular sac.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
