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Prosobranchia

Syllabification: (Pros·o·bran·chi·a)
Pronunciation: /ˌpräsəˈbraNGkēə/

Zoology
Definition of Prosobranchia
  • a group of mollusks that includes the limpets, abalones, and many terrestrial and aquatic snails. They all have a shell, and many have an operculum.
    • Subclass Prosobranchia, class Gastropoda

Derivatives

prosobranch

Pronunciation: /ˈpräsəˌbraNGk/

noun

Origin:

modern Latin (plural), from Greek prosō 'forward' + brankhia 'gills'

Prosobranchia in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Prosobranchia in the British & World English dictionary

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