Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having lungs or lunglike organs.
  • adjective Of or belonging to a large group of gastropods having a cavity in the mantle that is used as a lung for breathing air and including the terrestrial snails and slugs, certain freshwater snails, and some marine species.
  • noun A pulmonate gastropod.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having lungs, lung-sacs, or lung-like organs; pulmonary or pulmoniferous, as a mollusk or an arachnidan; pulmonated, as a vertebrate: distinguished from branchiate and tracheate.
  • noun A member of the Pulmonata in either sense, as a snail or a spider.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
  • adjective Pertaining to the Pulmonata.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective anatomy having lungs or similar organs
  • adjective biology of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order Pulmonata (slugs and snails)
  • noun A gastropod of the order Pulmonata

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin pulmō, pulmōn-, lung; see pulmonary.]

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  • Dedicated to Mollusque: the Pulmonata, an order of snails that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breath air. The order includes many land and fresh-water families and a smattering of marine ones.

    January 18, 2009