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Definition of Gastropods
1. gastropod [n] - See also: gastropod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gastropods
Literary usage of Gastropods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"THE RECENT gastropods Recent gastropods were collected on the beach at two
localities, Playa Grande and Higuerote. The Playa Grande waterfront, ..."
2. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"gastropods lived throughout the period but were seldom abun- dant. ... Some of
the spiral forms bear a close resemblance to some modern gastropods. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... this isolation of the pericardium we have noted already in gastropods and
Cephalopods. A good case for the examination of the question as to whether ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The subordinate place of the gastropods. —Though fairly abundant, the gastropods
were quite inferior to the pelecypods in numbers. ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The subordinate place of the gastropods. —Though fairly abundant, the gastropods
were quite inferior to the pelecypods in numbers. ..."
6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"The subordinate place of the gastropods. —Though fairly abundant, the gastropods
were quite inferior to the pelecypods in numbers. ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"First, the distribution of the mats and the gastropods is mutually exclusive,
the gastropods living in the intertidal zone, the mats being developed in the ..."
8. Report Upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters by Addison Emery Verrill (1874)
"We find, however, that quite a number of our species, both of gastropods and
bivalves, possess this power in a high degree and do habitually live on the ..."
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