gastropod

Meanings

• noun

  A type of mollusk that has a soft body enclosed within a protective shell and folds its body into the shell for protection. This includes snails and slugs.

  - "The garden is infested with gastropods that are destroying the lettuce."
  - "The gastropod's shell is beautiful and intricately designed."
  - "The chef added butter and garlic to the pan before cooking the escargot, a type of gastropod."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with gastropod
podod , modod , coddle

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Variants

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gastropod , gastropods

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Etymology

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From the Greek word 'gastropodios', meaning 'stomach foot', referring to the foot of these animals that resemble a stomach due to its structure.

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Trivia

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1. There are over 80,000 known species of gastropods.

2. The largest known gastropod is the giant African land snail, which can grow up to 11 inches long.

3. The smallest known gastropod is the pigmy sea snail, which is only 0.02 inches long.

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Related Concepts

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1. Mollusks: Gastropods are a class of mollusks, which also include bivalves (oysters, clams, mussels), cephalopods (squid, octopus), and gastropods (snails, slugs).

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Culture

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Gastropods have been used as a food source for centuries, particularly in Europe, where escargot is a delicacy. They have also been used in literature, such as in Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass', where the White Queen transforms into a gastropod.

How to Memorize "gastropod"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a snail, which is a type of gastropod, crawling along a leaf.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'gastropod' with the image of a snail or a shell.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Gastropods Go Slowly' to remember the definition of a gastropod.

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