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Pulmonata

Pulmonata Meaning & Definition
Pulmonata Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pulmonata?

[n] large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pulmonata: order Pulmonata

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See Also | animal order | class Gasteropoda | class Gastropoda | family Helicidae | family Physidae | Gasteropoda | Gastropoda | Helicidae | Physidae

Pulmonata In Webster's Dictionary

\Pul`mo*na"ta\, n. pl. [NL., from L. pulmo, -onis, a lung.] (Zo["o]l.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limn[ae]a and Planorbis.

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