Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
gasteropodous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
gastropods (snails and the like).
Etymologies
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Examples
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It went on in that fashion for hours, until, late in the night, or more precisely, early in the morning after the moon had set and human activity had flagged, the stick hopped up on the ledge beside the gastropodous undine and announced that he was going to the sea.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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Equally efficacious might be the modern definition of the same creature as a "terrestrial, air-breathing, gastropodous mollusk."
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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At this stage, the project's goal is to see if dogs can police exclusion areas that have been cleared of invader snails, to ensure the gastropodous wolves aren't getting back in.
unknown title 2009
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