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heteropod

Meaning of "heteropod" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROPOD

ˈhɛtərəˌpɒd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROPOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heteropod is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETEROPOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pterotracheoidea

The Pterotracheoidea is, according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda, a taxonomic superfamily of sea snails or sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. They are commonly called heteropods or sea elephants.

Definition of heteropod in the English dictionary

The definition of heteropod in the dictionary is any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROPOD

arthropod · brachiopod · cephalopod · chaetopod · chenopod · decapod · gasteropod · gastropod · hexapod · lycopod · myriapod · octopod · ornithopod · orthopod · pauropod · prosauropod · pteropod · sauropod · stomatopod · tetrapod

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROPOD

heterophil · heterophile · heterophony · heterophyllous · heterophylly · heteroplasia · heteroplastic · heteroplasties · heteroplasty · heteroploid · heteroploidy · heteropolar · heteropolarity · heteropolitan · heteropteran · heteropterous · heteroscedastic · heteroscedasticity · heteroscian · heterosexism

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROPOD

actinopod · branchiopod · chilopod · diplopod · endopod · gonopod · isopod · macropod · pereiopod · phyllopod · protopod · pseudopod · rhizopod · scaphopod · schizopod · steganopod · theropod · tylopod · uropod

Synonyms and antonyms of heteropod in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heteropod» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETEROPOD

Find out the translation of heteropod to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of heteropod from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heteropod» in English.
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heteropod
1,325 millions of speakers
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heteropod
570 millions of speakers
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heteropod
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heteropod
380 millions of speakers
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heteropod
280 millions of speakers
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heteropod
278 millions of speakers
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heteropod
270 millions of speakers
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heteropod
260 millions of speakers
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heteropod
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Heteropod
190 millions of speakers
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heteropod
180 millions of speakers
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heteropod
130 millions of speakers
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heteropod
85 millions of speakers
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Heteropod
85 millions of speakers
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heteropod
80 millions of speakers
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heteropod
75 millions of speakers
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हेटेरोडोड
75 millions of speakers
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heteropod
70 millions of speakers
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heteropod
65 millions of speakers
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heteropod
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heteropod
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heteropod
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heteropod
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heteropod
14 millions of speakers
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heteropod
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heteropod
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROPOD»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROPOD»

Discover the use of heteropod in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heteropod and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America
According to Van der Spoel (1976, 1996a) the number of heteropod species currently known is 35 plus several (7–10) subspecific forms. Richter and Seapy's (1999) figure is 36, without recognition of subspecific taxa; they stated that there are ...
Ingo S. Wehrtmann, Jorge Cort©♭s, 2008
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Invertebrate Vision
5.6.3 Detection and pursuit of prey: heteropod molluscs and alciopid annelids Both these groups inhabit the upper 100m of the ocean, and are predators of plankton. Both have evolved unusually well developed eyes (Fig. 5.5), in classes (the ...
Eric Warrant, Dan-Eric Nilsson, 2006
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Pelagic Snails: The Biology of Holoplanktonic Gastropod Mollusks
Calcareous shells are present in members of two of the three heteropod families and are lacking only in the pterotracheids. B0ggild (1930) established that the shells of atlantids and Carinaria are composed of aragonite and not of calcite, the  ...
Carol M. Lalli, Ronald W. Gilmer, 1989
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Mesopelagic Zooplankton Feeding Ecology and Effects on ...
Extremely large pellets of the heteropod Carinaria spp. (see results) were only found at station ALOHA at 150 m (in all replicates). We excluded heteropod pellet POC contribution in our analyses as we have no reliable estimate of their ...
Stephanie Erin Wilson, 2008
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Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
Interestingly, in the heteropod Atlanta the movement of the eyes is synchronous and their overlap suggests the possession of binocular vision (see notes 86 and 89). 37. Concerning the well-known winkle Littorina littorea, see the paper by ...
Simon Conway Morris, 2003
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Plankton & Benthos Research
The regression results (Table 3) revealed that A. rosea dominated the heteropod community in winter, spring and summer, based on the dominance index, average abundance, and proportion of overall heteropod abundance (Xu & Li 2005b).
‎2007
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The Optics of Life: A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature
(heteropod), (i) Bathochordeus charon (larvacean), (J) Periclimenes holthuisi ( anemone shrimp), (K) Bathophilus sp. (larval form ofdeep-sea fish), (L) Cardiopoda richardi (heteropod). images courtesy of Laurence Madin, steve haddock, ...
Sönke Johnsen, 2012
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The Evidence for Evolution
One group, the heteropod sea snails, has retinas so long and narrow that at any given instant the snail's field of view is only a few degrees high, though it may be 180◦ wide. This snail peers at the world through a narrow slit. The slit however is  ...
Alan R. Rogers, 2011
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Species of Pterotheca have been erroneously described as brachiopods (Atrypa transversa Port- lock, 1843), and the genus itself has often been classified with the pteropod or heteropod gastropods. Hall (1861, p. 96-98), not knowing of the ...
‎1949
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
—Species of Pterotheca have been erroneously described as brachiopods ( Atrypa transversa Port- lock, 1843), and the genus itself has often been classified with the pteropod or heteropod gastropods. Hall (1861, p. 96-98), not knowing of the ...
‎1983

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETEROPOD»

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TGIF: Snails that Fly, or, the Potato Chips of the Ocean
Some species possess a sucker on their “fin” which the heteropod no doubt uses to hold its prey still while it savages it alive. Then there is the ... «Scientific American, Feb 12»
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