gastropod

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  1. noun Any of various mollusks of the class Gastropoda, such as the snail, slug, cowrie, or limpet, characteristically having a single, usually coiled shell or no shell at all, a ventral muscular foot for locomotion, and eyes and feelers located on a distinct head.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the class Gastropoda.

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  • There are 4 series from varved lake sediments in Punta Laguna, Mexico: two dO18 and two C13 series, each for a different gastropod species. —  Climate Audit
  • The sediments are dated by 5 dates from terrestrial wood (as there is a large reservoir effect in the gastropod radiocarbon dates) with only 2 dates from the last millennium. —  Climate Audit
  • The gastropod body consists of the mantle and the foot. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • We have examined the TEM data on these sequences for three species: Philaenus spumarius (a homopteran insect), Murex brandaris (a gastropod mollusc), and Eledone cirrhosa (a cephalopod mollusc). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We consider types of dynamic mechanism, and show that for "nanostructural" dimensions (tens of nanometers as pattern spacing) reaction-diffusion dynamics are quite inappropriate, but that separation of two fluid phases by a mechanism similar to what is known as "spinodal decomposition" is a very attractive possibility. bivalve fluo gastropod lysosome mollusc parasperm sperm tem —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. From New Latin Gastropoda, class name : gastro- + -poda, -pod.
 

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/ˈgæstəroʊkˈpɑd, gæstroʊkpɑd/
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