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Definition of Pulmonate
1. a. Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
Definition of Pulmonate
1. Adjective. (anatomy) having lungs or similar organs ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) of, relating to, or belonging to the gastropod order ''Pulmonata'' (slugs and snails) ¹
3. Noun. A gastropod of the order ''Pulmonata'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulmonate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulmonate
Literary usage of Pulmonate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory by Jaques Cattell, Jaques Cattell Press (1921)
"... and fertilization in pulmonate gasteropoda; natural history of annelids;
circulation in Nereis; adapting the researches of biology to educational uses. ..."
2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"Dr. Carl Rabí on the Pedicle of Invagination in pulmonate Gastropoda.—Dr. Rabí has
renewed his investigations on the embryology of Planorbis, ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Among the pulmonate Gastropods, those which are strictly terrestrial pass through
no metamorphosis, the "velum" being absent in the embryo. ..."
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