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Part of a mollusk's mouth
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radula
Word definitions for radula in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The radula (plural radulae or radulas ) is an anatomical structure that is used by molluscs for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue . It is a minutely toothed, chitinous ribbon, which is typically used for scraping or cutting food before the food enters ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surgical instrument, 1753, from Latin radula "scraper, scraping iron," from radere "to scrape" (see raze ). Related: Radular .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radula \Rad"u*la\ (r[a^]d"[-u]*l[.a]), n.; pl. Radul[ae] (r[a^]d"[-u]*l[=e]). [L., a scraper, fr. radere to scrape.] (Zo["o]l.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon , and tongue . See Odontophore .
Usage examples of radula.
People came back who had become gnawed by the radula of impossibly fast vermiform predators.
I did my Biology at University College,--getting out the ovary of the earthworm and the radula of the snail, and all that.
Ahead of him somewhere, a thousand rasping ultra-diamond teeth, patterned on the radulae of a snail, had been chewing through the metal core of the rock, sucking the debris into the sorter and then into the storage bay for refining on the main ship.