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Definition of Radula
1. n. The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.
Definition of Radula
1. Noun. (zoology) The rasping tongue of snails and most other mollusks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Radula
1. a tonguelike organ of mollusks [n -LAE or -LAS] : RADULAR [adj]
Medical Definition of Radula
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Origin: L, a scraper, fr. Radere to scrape.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Radula
Literary usage of Radula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Henry Meyners Bernard, Matilda Bernard, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"It is protruded in such a way that the tongue with the radula occupy the anterior
end of ... In very rare cases (apart from the Lamellibranchia) the radula ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"At the spot where the radula ceases, the forward growth-movement of the ...
The radula or cuticular product of the slowly-moving bed can be stripped off, ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"radula andicola Steph. Hedwigia 23: 114. 1884. radula viridi-aurea Spruce, ...
In his recent synopsis of the genus radula ..."
4. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"... consists of three concentrical layers of cells, continues to grow in thickness
up to this period; in radula the growth takes place by a single division; ..."
5. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"B, radula or lingual ribbon of ... G. a single row of teeth from the radula of
Cy;'raea helvola ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1884)
"The arrow (c) in the same diagram shows the direction in which the radula moves
when the animal is rasping the food. As regards the disappearance of the ..."
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