Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A suborder or otherwise denominated group of gastropods having a contractile rostrum or snout, and supposed to be phytophagous.

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

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

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  • Euglena rostrifera - This species is a member of the protozoan order Euglenida, a remarkable group of single-celled creatures, many of which exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals.

    unknown title 2009

  • Euglena rostrifera - This species is a member of the protozoan order Euglenida, a remarkable group of single-celled creatures, many of which exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals.

    unknown title 2009

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