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pulmonate

 
Dictionary: pul·mo·nate   (pʊl'mə-nāt', pŭl'-) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Having lungs or lunglike organs.
  2. Of or belonging to the Pulmonata, a subclass of gastropods including terrestrial snails and slugs and certain freshwater snails that are capable of breathing air through lunglike sacs.
n.
A gastropod of the subclass Pulmonata.

[From Latin pulmō, pulmōn-, lung. See pulmonary.]


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