'Pulmonata' definitions:
Definition of 'Pulmonata'
(from WordNet)
noun
Large order of gastropods usually breathing by means of a lung-like sac comprising most land snails and slugs and many freshwater snails [syn: Pulmonata, order Pulmonata]
Definition of 'Pulmonata'
From: GCIDE
- Pulmonata \Pul`mo*na"ta\, n. pl. [NL., from L. pulmo, -onis, a lung.] (Zool.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limn[ae]a and Planorbis. [1913 Webster]