naticidn.adj.
/ˈnatᵻsɪd/, U.S. /ˈnædəsɪd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A member of the family Naticidae of carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs, a moon snail.
ΚΠ
1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. at Naticidæ Naticid, n.
1960 Evolution 14 67/2 The prosobranch family Naticidae is largely restricted to infaunal soft-bottom dwellers, and the naticids show only slightly more diversity in the tropics than in high latitudes.
1984 New Scientist 17 May 19/3 A naticid gets through to the soft parts of its prey by boring a hole in one of the two shells with its toothed, rasp-like radula.
2001 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 166 141 The durophagous predators (e.g. crabs) and drilling predators (naticids, octopods, and muricids) appeared to be selective in their choice of prey items.
B. adj.
Belonging to, characteristic of, or relating to the family Naticidae.
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1956 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 145 565 Schiemenz..claimed to show that the foot of certain naticid prosobranchs required the intake of sea water into a system of tubes, separate from the blood system.
1967 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates VI. xxiv. 335 The shell is naticid in form, having a small spire and globose expanded body whorl with large aperture.
1984 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 50 1 Umbonium vestiarium (L.) forms virtually the entire diet of 3 (possibly 4) species of naticid snails..on some north Penang sandy shores.
1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. xv. 115 The enormous swelling of the foot in some burrowing naticid gastropods is accompanied through intake of water into a complex sinus.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1928