Gastropod Definition

găstrə-pŏd
gastropods
noun
gastropods
Any of a large class (Gastropoda) of mollusks having one-piece, straight or spiral shells, as snails, limpets, etc., or having no shells or greatly reduced shells, as certain slugs: most gastropods move by means of a broad, muscular, ventral foot.
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Noun

Singular:
gastropod
Plural:
gastropods

Origin of Gastropod

  • From New Latin Gastropoda class name gastro– -poda -pod

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gastropod Sentence Examples

  • It occurs immature in the gastropod Nassa.

  • In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.

  • The problem of the causes of the torsion of the Gastropod body has been much discussed.

  • As in all such introand e-versible organs, eversion of the Gastropod proboscis is effected by pressure communicated by the muscular body-wall to the liquid contents (blood) of the body-space, accompanied by the relaxation of the muscles which directly pull upon either the sides or the apex of the tubular organ.

  • B, The same, partially everted by eversion of the sides, as in the Nemertine proboscis and Gastropod eye-tentacle = pleurecbolic.

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