Pulmonate (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. having lungs or lunglike organs.
  2. belonging to the Pulmonata, an order of gastropod mollusks usually breathing by means of a lunglike sac, and including most of the terrestrial snails and the slugs and certain aquatic snails.
noun
  1. a pulmonate gastropod.
adjective
  1. having lungs or lunglike organs
  2. of, relating to, or belonging to the Pulmonata, a mostly terrestrial subclass or order of gastropod molluscs, including snails and slugs, in which the mantle is adapted as a lung
noun
  1. any pulmonate mollusc
Pulmonate (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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