Look up: Planorbis

1. Planorbis
   Type: Term Pronunciation: plan-ōr′bis Definitions: 1. A European and North African genus of freshwater snails (family Planorbidae), including Planorbis planorbis, intermediate host of the sheep and cattle fluke, Paramphistoma cervi.
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2. Planorbis
   Pla·nor'bis noun [ New Latin , from Latin planus flat + orbis a circle.] (Zoology) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
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3. planorbis
   <marine biology> Any fresh water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form. ... Origin: NL, fr. L. Planus flat + orbis a circle. ... (19 Mar 1998) ...
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4. Planorbis
   • (n.) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
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5. Planorbis
   (from the article `gastropod`) Snails show a tremendous variety of shapes, based primarily upon the logarithmic spiral. They can be coiled flatly in one plane, as in Planorbis; ...
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6. Planorbis
   `Planorbis` is a genus of freshwater air-breathing snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram`s horn snails, or planorbids. All species in this genus have sinistral or left-coiling shells. Description : Planorbis shells are hard to make sense of in terms o...
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