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scaly-foot gastropods

scaly-foot gastropods is the plural of scaly-foot gastropod.

Meaning of scaly-foot gastropod

Noun

scaly-foot gastropod (plural scaly-foot gastropods)

  1. A marine snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean. It has a foot armored at the sides with iron-mineralised sclerites.
    Synonyms:
    scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, volcano snail

Questions about scaly-foot gastropods

What is scaly-foot gastropods the plural of?
Scaly-foot gastropods is the plural of scaly-foot gastropod.

Words near scaly-foot gastropods in the dictionary

  1. scaly thrush
  2. scaly thrushes
  3. scaly-breasted lorikeet
  4. scaly-breasted lorikeets
  5. scaly-foot gastropod
  6. scaly-foot gastropods
  7. scaly-sided merganser
  8. scaly-sided mergansers
  9. scaly-tailed possum
  10. scaly-tailed possums
  11. scalybutt

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