radular
- a word derived from radula.
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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 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
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
The radular teeth are of several different kinds in each transverse row.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 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
