Gastropod

Definition: Gastropod

Gastropod

Noun

1. A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes.

Domain	Definitions
Mining	Any mollusk belonging to the class Gastropoda, characterized by a distinct head with eyes and tentacles and, in most, by a single calcareous shell that is closed at the apex, sometimes spiralled, not chambered, and generally asymmetrical; e.g., a snail. Range, Upper Cambrian to present. (references)
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Synonym: Gastropod

Synonym: univalve (n). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	A synoposis of the marine prosobranch gastropod and bivalve mollusks in Alaskan waters (reference) Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs (reference) British prosobranch and other operculate gastropod molluscs: keys and notes for the identification of the species (reference) Evolution and Classification of the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Gastropod Perissitys (Contributions in Science, No 380) (reference) Istoriia gastropod paleogenovykh morei zapada Evrazii (reference) (more book examples)
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"Gastropod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gastropod" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Expression using "gastropod": neritid gastropod. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "gastropod": gastropod-like.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "gastropod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏البطني الأقدام. (various references)

Bulgarian		коремоного. (various references)

Chinese		腹足动物 (gasteropod). (various references)

Finnish		kotilo. (various references)

French		gastéropode. (various references)

German		gastropode, bauchfüssler. (various references)

Greek		γαστερόποδο. (various references)

Hebrew		חלזון (slug, snail, worm). (various references)

Hungarian		haslábú (gastropoda). (various references)

Pig Latin		astropodgay.(various references)

Russian		гастропод. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gastropod. (various references)

Turkish		karındanbacaklı (gasteropod). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gastropod": gastropods. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gastropod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gagstropod, gasteropod, gastropodic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "gastropod" (pronounced 'Gas"tro*pod'): Adelopod, Arthropod, Baenopod, Brachiopod, Branchiopod, Cercopod, Chaetopod, Chilopod, Condylopod, Copepod, Decapod, Diplopod, Gnathopod, Haemapod, Heteropod, Hexapod, isopod, Laemodipod, lycopod, Macropod, mastigopod, Myriapod, Myxopod, Neuropod, Octopod, Peraeopod, Phyllopod, Physopod, Platypod, Pleopod, Poecilopod, Pseudopod, Pteropod, Pygopod, rhizopod, Steganopod, Stomapod, stomatopod, tetrapod, Trachelipod, tripod, Uropod. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: postgrad.
	-2 letters: gosport, parodos, ragtops.
	-3 letters: adopts, agorot, argots, droops, gators, groats, pagods, pargos, pastor, ragtop, troops.
	-4 letters: adopt, apods, aport, argot, dagos, darts, datos, doats, doors, dopas, dorps, dorsa, drags, drats, droop, drops, dropt, gator, goads, goats, goods, goops, gorps, grads, grasp, groat, grots, odors, ordos, pagod, pards, pargo, parts, poods, ports, praos, prats, proas, prods, progs, proso, prost, ratos, roads, roast, roods, roost, roots, rotas, rotos, sapor, sarod, sopor, sorgo, spado, spoor, sport, sprag, sprat, stood, stoop, strap, strop, tardo, taros, tarps, toads, togas, topos, toras, toros, torso, traps, troop.
	-5 letters: ados, apod, arts, atop, dago, dags, daps, dart, dato, doat, dogs, door, dopa, dorp, dors, dost, dots, drag, drat, drop, gads, gaps, gars, gasp, gast, gats, goad, goas, goat, gods, good, goop, goos, gorp, grad, grat, grot, oars, oast, oats, odor, oops, oots, opts, orad, ordo, orts, osar, pads, pard, pars, part, past, pats, pods, pood, poor, port, post, pots, prao, prat, proa, prod, prog, pros, rads, rags, raps, rapt, rasp, rato, rats, road, rods, rood, root, rota, roto, rots, sago, sard, soap, soar, soda, soot, sora, sord, sort, spar, spat, spot, stag, star, stoa, stop, tads, tags, taos, taps, taro, tarp, tars, toad, tods, toga, togs, tops, tora, toro, tors, trad, trap, trod, trop, tsar.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-o-o-p-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: gastropods.
	+4 letters: gonadotropins.
	+5 letters: gonadotrophins, postgraduation, prognosticated.
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