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gasteropod, gastropod, n. and a.|ˈgæstərəpɒd, ˈgæstrəpɒd|
Also 9 -pode.
[ad. mod.L. gasteropoda, gastropoda neut. pl.: see next.]
A. n. An animal of the Gasteropoda class or group of molluscs.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlv. 235 Several Gasteropods can neither hear nor see. 1841Douglas in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 9. 244 The most beautiful naked gasteropode we have seen. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 97 The gasteropods, including land-snails, sea-snails, whelks, limpets, and the like, are the types of the mollusca.
transf.1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 231 They [seals] may be called ‘gastropods,’ in respect of their..mode of progression.
B. adj. Gasteropodous.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 386/1 The Gasteropod Mollusca. 1850Johnston Conchol. 118 The small Gasteropod order which Cuvier has called Heteropods, are [etc.]. |