Crossword-Solution: PTEROPOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pteropod | n. | One of the Pteropoda. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PTEROPOD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MOLLUSC with middle part of foot expanded into pair of wing-like lobes | 1 answer |
| Class of mollusks | 2 answers |
| Mollusk. | 9 answers |
| gastropod | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAMEZE
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eruption
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Sentences with PTEROPOD (5)
Besides these, however, the same ancient schists have yielded two genera of brachiopods, _Orthis_ and _Orbicula,_ a Pteropod of the genus _Theca,_ and four echinoderms of the cystidean family.
Specifically: (a) (Zoöl.) Defn: One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
This chalk consists of the minute shells of _Foraminifera_, sprinkled with remains of small _Entomostraca_, and probably a few Pteropod-shells; though the sounding lines have not yet brought up any of these last.
The gasteropoda commence life under the form of a small spiral shell, and an animal furnished with ciliated wings, or lobes, like a pteropod, by means of which it can swim freely, and in this form can migrate with ease through the sea."[920] We are accustomed to associate in our minds the idea of the greatest locomotive powers with the most mature and perfect state of each species of invertebrate animal, especially when they undergo a series of transformations; but in all the Mollusca the reverse is true.
PTEROPOD, ter'[=o]-pod, _n._ one of a class of molluscs which move about by means of wing-like appendages attached to the sides of the head, which are not, however, homologous to the foot of other molluscs:--_pl._ PTEROP'ODA.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).