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Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiïdæ; -- so called from its hornlike form.

One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

omiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming ep…

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.

he chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

uropean crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood…

A subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. It includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamon…

nsoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

One of the lateral lobes of the foot in certain gastropods.

A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.

ich exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.