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Definition of Bulimus
1. n. A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America.
Definition of Bulimus
1. bulimia [n -ES] - See also: bulimia
Medical Definition of Bulimus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulimus
Literary usage of Bulimus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"Achatina fasciata Swain., Reeve. Orb., Pf., Desh. in Fer. Achatina lineata Valen.
Lister t. 12, f. 7. Knorr. t. 25, f. 4 bulimus ..."
2. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"The animal differs from that of bulimus proper, according to Troschel in Zeit.
f. Mai. ... bulimus zebra, Desh. • in Lam. An. s. Vert. vol. viii. p. ..."
3. The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the by Amos Binney (1859)
"A PFEIFFER vol. ii. p. 285, pi. liii. fig. 4. bulimus ... bulimus hortensis ADAMS,
vid. PFEIFFER, Mai. Blatt. i. 196; also vid. Contr. to Conch. p. 221. ..."
4. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"The animal differs from thai of bulimus proper, according to Troschel in Zeit.
f. MiA. ... bulimus zebra, Desh. in Lam. An. s. Vert. vol. viii. p. 223. ..."
5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... crescent of the aperture is higher than it is wide, a disposition which always
obtains when the spire is oblong or elongated, it constitutes the bulimus ..."
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