Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gastropodous mollusk; any one of the Gasteropoda.
- Gastropodous. Also gasteropodan, gastropodan. [The form gastropod is more commonly used.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
gastropod .
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- noun
gastropod
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Examples
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He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.
Ulysses 2003
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A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample -- not a small gasteropod!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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I am very glad to hear from you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gasteropod foot is now generally admitted.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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I am very glad to hear from you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gasteropod foot is now generally admitted.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896
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He has also shown that the initiation and development of the columellar plaits in Voluta, Mitra, and other gasteropod molluscs
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This clay from the Amazon, as examined microscopically by Prof.H. James Clark, contains fragments of gasteropod shells and bivalve casts.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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Crampton HE Jr (1896) Experimental studies on gasteropod development.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan Q. Goulding 2009
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Crampton HE Jr (1896) Experimental studies on gasteropod development.
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"It is not settled whether the back of a cuttle-fish answers to the dorsal or ventral surface of a gasteropod.
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