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n.
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
n.
See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
n. pl.
An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.
a.
Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.
v. t.
To cover or envelop, as with a mantle; to cloak; to hide; to disguise.
v. i.
To spread over the surface as a covering; to overspread; as, the scum mantled on the pool.
v. t.
To divest of a mantle; to uncover.
n.
The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms: -- called also lambrequin.
n.
One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
n.
A woman's cloak or mantle; also, a woman's gown.
n.
A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.
a.
Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.
n.
The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
v. i.
To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively.
n.
Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.
n. pl.
A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.
n.
The hard calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates. In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle. Also, the hard covering of some vertebrates, as the armadillo, the tortoise, and the like.
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n. pl.
A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.
n.
The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
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