English > gastropod: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes. |
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| Synonym | univalve |
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| Member of | Gastropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, class Gasteropoda | snails and slugs and their relatives |
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| Narrower | abalone, ear-shell | Any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior |
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| bubble shell | marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell |
| conch | Any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip |
| cowrie, cowry | Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells |
| physa | Any member of the genus Physa |
| river limpet, freshwater limpet, Ancylus fluviatilis | minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants |
| sea hare, Aplysia punctata | naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles |
| sea slug, nudibranch | Any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body |
| seasnail | Any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell |
| slug | Any of various terrestrial / terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell |
| snail | Freshwater or marine or terrestrial / terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell |
| solenogaster, aplacophoran | deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle |
| Broader | mollusk, mollusc, shellfish | invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell |
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| Spanish | gasterópodo, gasterópodos |
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| Catalan | gasteròpode, gastròpode, univalve |
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