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‖ gasteropoda, gastropoda, n. pl. Zool.|gæstəˈrɒpədə, gæˈstrɒpədə|
[mod.L., f. Gr. γαστ(ε)ρ(ο)-, γαστήρ stomach, + ποδ-, πούς foot.]
A class or group of molluscs (including the snails, limpets, etc.), so called from the ventral position of the locomotive organ.
1828J. Stark Nat. Hist. II. 59 M. Cuvier has given the name of Gasteropoda to all the animals of this class which have a foot or muscular disc proper for crawling. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca ii. 7 In the gasteropoda, or snails, the under side of the body forms a single muscular foot. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 319 These relations are different in the Gastropoda.
Hence gast(e)ˈropodan a. and n. = gasteropod; gasteˈropodic a. = next.
1876F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 123 Your argument..done into gasteropodic prose, is simply that the human kind have utterly gone backward since the statue was carved. |