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pulmonata
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pulmonata has 1 sense
- pulmonata(n = noun.animal) order pulmonata - large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails; Array is a kind of animal order
is a member of class gasteropoda, class gastropoda, gasteropoda, gastropoda
CIDE DICTIONARY
pulmonata, n. pl. [NL., from L. pulmo, -onis, a lung.].
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 Limnæa and Planorbis. [1913 Webster]
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