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Pellibranchiata :: Pellibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill..

Inferobranchiata :: Inferobranchiata (n. pl.) A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle..

Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (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..

Tectibranchiata :: Tectibranchiata (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..

Straight :: Stragulum (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird..

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) 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 Limnaea and Planorbis..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To unfold and spread out the wings, like a mantle; -- said of hawks. Also used figuratively..

Siphonata :: Siphonata (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..

Mantle :: Mantle (v. i.) To spread out; -- said of wings.

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship..

Immantle :: Immantle (v. t.) See Emmantle.

Lady''s Mantle :: Lady's mantle () A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with rounded and finely serrated lobes..

Dismantled :: Dismantled (imp. & p. p.) of Dismantl.

Pall :: Pall (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A mantel. See Mantel.

Mantle :: Mantle (n.) Any free, outer membrane..

Pallium :: Pallium (n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

Chlamydate :: Chlamydate (a.) Having a mantle; -- applied to certain gastropods.

Dismantle :: Dismantle (v. t.) To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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