Crossword-Solution: RADULA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Radula | n. | The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore. |
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| RADULA | anagram | ADULAR |
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| Mollusk's eating apparatus. | 1 answer |
| Part of a mollusk's mouth | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
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Move
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Sentences with RADULA (5)
See Rhachis, and Glossa.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula.
CHITON, the name[1] given to fairly common littoral animals of rather small size which belong to the phylum Mollusca, and, in the possession of a radula in the buccal cavity, resemble more especially the Gastropoda.
Hubrecht in 1881 of a typical molluscan radula and odontophore in a new genus _Proneomenia_, allied to _Neomenia_, showed that the whole group belonged to the Mollusca.
Each transverse row of teeth of the radula contains 17 teeth, one of which is median, while the second and the fifth on each side are enlarged.
The labial commissure gives off a subradular commissure which also bears two ganglia, these being in close relation to a special sense-organ called the subradular organ, an epithelial projection with nerve-endings, lying in front of the radula and probably gustatory in function.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1976).