pulmonate

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Supporting this notion, selection of one macromere as 3D in the pulmonate

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  1. adjective Having lungs or lunglike organs.
  2. adjective Of or belonging to the Pulmonata, a subclass of gastropods including terrestrial snails and slugs and certain freshwater snails that are capable of breathing air through lunglike sacs.
  3. noun A gastropod of the subclass Pulmonata.

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  • Supporting this notion, selection of one macromere as 3D in the pulmonate —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • One cannot write easily of "pulmonate gasteropods." —  The Naturalist on the Thames
  • How interesting it will be to see hereafter plants treated in strict relation to your views; and then all insects, pulmonate molluscs and fresh-water fishes, in greater detail than I suppose you have given to these lower animals. —  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • How interesting it will be to see hereafter plants treated in strict relation to your views; and then all insects, pulmonate molluscs, and fresh-water fishes, in greater detail than I suppose you have given to these lower animals. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • 2 and 1m122 in Bithynia, becomes increasingly pronounced up to the latest stages examined; if it persists through later development, it might lead to heterochrony in organogenesis, akin to that recently described among basommatophoran pulmonate snails —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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  1. From Latin pulmō, pulmōn-, lung; see pulmonary.

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  1. from New Latin pulmonatus, from Latin pulmo(n-), lung: see pulmonary.
 

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