Medical Definition of Inoperculate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inoperculate
Literary usage of Inoperculate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"If the inoperculate pulmonates are considered, with so much reason, as an
incontestable group, it is because, apart from their pulmonary sack, they possess ..."
2. Some Salient Points in the Science of the Earth by Sir John William Dawson (1894)
"The second or inoperculate division, includes some genera that are aquatic and
some that are terrestrial. Of the aquatic genera no representatives are known ..."
3. A Manual of Natural History, for the Use of Travellers: Being a Description by Arthur Adams, William Balfour Baikie, Charles Barron (1854)
"... inoperculate, receiving respiratory streams by apertures usually numerous and
lateral, distinct from the mouth ; a heart. 1. FAMILY. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... including those forms which have the eyes at the tips of the tentacles.
The group is framed for the inoperculate land-snails generally, ..."
5. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... i (103) Animal with a distinct head, bearing, usually, contractile tentacles.
Shell univalve Class Gastropoda . . aa (63100) Animal inoperculate, ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"Moquin Tandon has quite conclusively shown, we think, that in the minute nerve
termini, at the extremity of the upper tentacles of land inoperculate ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"The relative numbers are as follows: — Cuba Jamaica Sun Domingo Porto Rico
inoperculate . . . 362 221 152 76 Operculate ... 252 242 100 23 It appears, then, ..."
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