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Pulmonata
The
Pulmonata, or "pulmonates", are an informal group (previously an
order, and before that a
subclass) of
snails and
slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a
gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families.
Pulmonata
Noun
1. large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails
(synonym) order Pulmonata
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Gastropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, class Gasteropoda
(member-meronym) Helicidae, family Helicidae
Pulmonata
(n. pl.)
An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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