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Meanings of gastropod in inglés

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A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes.

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        Examples for "univalve"
        Examples for "univalve"
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        Save the univalve's operculum and slice it off the muscle that holds it.
        Let's Collect Rocks and Shells
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        A shell pin made from the columella of a large univalve.
        Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made Durin...
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        There are three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.
        Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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        It was easy to see that the stones are thin and porous opercula, which have formed part of small univalve shells.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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        There was one imported shell that we did not value much, it was so abundant-thefreckled univalve they called a "prop."
        A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
        Usage of gastropod in inglés
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        The gastropod wears larger versions of the scales on its exposed foot.
        Wired
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        As the sun set, the humidity in the house increased, improving conditions for gastropod travel.
        The sound of a wild snail eating
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        They represented half a billion years of gastropod evolution.
        The sound of a wild snail eating
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        Cupping the fossil cast of a gastropod in her hands, she stared at it intently.
        The Clan of the Cave Bear
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        Abalone is the only gastropod that can be grilled.
        Mastering the grill: the owner's manual for outdoor cooking
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        She saw the gastropod give up chasing the balloon and stop next to her husband.
        Timeless
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        Jeremy's shell coiled to the left instead of the right - making him one very rare gastropod.
        BBC
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        The idiot glowered at the gastropod enemy.
        Timeless
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        It was a copy of a delicate gastropod, made of rice paper & it dissolved when you washed it.
        The new yorker
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        Stasis in three genetically well-defined extant species of the gastropod Amalda from New Zealand based on 662 fossil specimens.
        The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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        Below him she could see the gastropod, tracking them across the sands, still close enough to be a danger.
        Timeless
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        Ayla rubbed the four scars on her leg as she looked at another object: the fossil cast of a gastropod.
        The Valley of Horses
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        They are officially a 'semi-slug', and like a paua are a gastropod but the resemblance of the shell is a coincidence.
        Radio NZ
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        Comparisons are drawn with general distribution patterns of monoamines and with identified monoaminergic cells and cell populations found in other gastropod species.
        Pubmed
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        The snail, called the scaly-foot gastropod, was discovered nearly a decade ago living in a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean.
        Wired
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        But the snail's organic layer is surprisingly thick, and no other gastropod has ever been shown to use iron sulfide in its shell.
        Wired
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        Gastropod through the time