gastropod

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a mollusk of the class Gastropoda, including snails, slugs, limpets, and related animals, typically moving on a broad muscular foot

   The marine gastropod grazed algae from the rock with its radula.

From French gasteropode and New Latin Gastropoda, formed from Greek gaster, 'stomach,' + pous, pod-, 'foot.' The name refers to the broad ventral foot lying beneath the animal's visceral region.

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