Associations to the word «Pulmonata»

Wiktionary

PULMONATA, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the superorder Heterobranchia   — the air-breathing slugs and snails.

Dictionary definition

PULMONATA, noun. Large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope