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pulmoniferous, a. Zool.|pʌlməʊˈnɪfərəs| [f. L. pulmōn-em lung + -ferous.] Bearing or having lungs (or lung-like organs); pulmonate; spec. belonging to the group Pulmonifera (= Pulmonata) of gastropod molluscs.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 621/2 The pulmoniferous Mollusca. 1851–9Broderip in Man. Sci. Enq. 400 The terrestrial or pulmoniferous Mollusca (land-shells). b. Containing the lungs or lung-sacs.
1890Cent. Dict. s.v., The pulmoniferous somites of an arachnidan. So pulˈmonifer, a pulmoniferous gastropod. |