Word Meanings - INFEROBRANCHIATA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

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• GASTROPODA
  One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MANTLE
  See WINGS (more info) mantellum, mantelum, a cloth, napkin, cloak, mantle (cf. mantele, mantile, towel, napkin); prob. from manus hand + the root of tela 1. A loose garment to be worn over other garments;
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MARINE
  Formed by the action of the currents or waves of the sea; as, marine deposits. Marine acid , hydrochloric acid. -- Marine barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and
• GASTROPOD
  One of the Gastropoda.
• MARINERSHIP
  Seamanship. Udalt.
• MARINER
  One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.
• GASTROPODOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Gastropoda.
• MARINED
  Having the lower part of the body like a fish. Crabb.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• SUBORDER
  A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
• MANTLET
  See MANTELET
• PORTMANTLE
  A portmanteau.
• EMMANTLE
  To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. Holland.
• FUMARINE
  An alkaloid extracted from fumitory, as a white crystalline substance.
• OUTMANTLE
  To excel in mantling; hence, to excel in splendor, as of dress. And with poetic trappings grace thy prose, Till it outmantle all the pride of verse. Cowper.
• IVY-MANTLED
  Covered with ivy.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• DISMANTLE
  dis-) + manteler to cover with a cloak, defend, fr. mantel, F. 1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest. 2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town,
• ULTRAMARINE
  Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke.
• IMMANTLE
  See EMMANTLE
• BRANCHIOGASTROPODA
  Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiæ, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.
• SUBMARINE
  Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. Submarine armor, a waterproof dress of strong material, having a helmet into which air for breathing is pumped through a tube leading from above
• LADY'S MANTLE
  A genus of rosaceous herbs , esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes.