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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of pond-snails or fresh-water gastropods of the family Limnæidæ, or made type of the Physidæ, having the shell sinistral.
- noun [lowercase] A pond-snail of the genus Physa.
- noun [lowercase; pl. physæ (-sē).] In some anthozoans, as Edwardsia, the lower end of the body. It may or may not be retractile into the scapus. Compare
capitulum , 6, andscapus , 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under
pond .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
genus Physa offreshwater snails .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any member of the genus Physa
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From the genus name.
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