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ESCARGOTS |
Snails |
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GASTROPODS |
Snails |
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MOLLUSCS |
Clams or snails |
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WHELKS |
Large sea snails |
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HARDASNAILS |
Harder snails sound ruthless |
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ESCARGATOIRE |
A nursery of snails. |
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FUNGIVOROUS |
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. |
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HELIX |
A genus of land snails, including a large number of species. |
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PUPA |
A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated
spiral shell. |
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GEOPHILA |
The division of Mollusca which includes the land
snails and slugs. |
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ACHATINA |
A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm
parts of America and Africa. |
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BASOMMATOPHORA |
A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the
base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails. |
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AESTIVATION |
The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness
of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation. |
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UNIVALVE |
A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose
shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs. |
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SNAIL |
Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true
snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under
Pond, and Sea snail. |
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BULIMUS |
A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell,
often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical
America. |
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VERTIGO |
Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging
to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and
usually teeth in the aperture. |
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STYLOMMATOPHORA |
A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are
situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land
snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail. |
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FOOT |
The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median
organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a
flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum. |
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PULMONATA |
...hrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into
an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden
slugs, and... |
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SLUG |
...r wanting. They
are closely allied to the land snails. ... |
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GASTROPODA |
...It
includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water
snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or
... |