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Webster 1913 Edition


Pulmonata

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Pulˊmo-na′ta

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Noun.
pl.
[NL., from L.
pulmo
,
-onis
, a lung.]
(Zool.)
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.