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bu·li·mus
\byüˈlīməs\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, probably from Latin, great hunger, from Greek boulimos, from bous head of cattle + limos hunger — more at cow, less
1. : a genus of small freshwater snails that is the type of the family Bulimidae and includes a species (B. fuchsianus) that is the chief intermediate host of the Chinese liver fluke
2. in former classifications : a genus of land snails somewhat equivalent to the family Bulimulidae |