"Odontophore" is a word in ENGLISH
A special structure found in the mouth of most
mollusks, except bivalves. It consists of several muscles and a
cartilage which supports a chitinous radula, or lingual ribbon, armed
with teeth. Also applied to the radula alone. See Radula.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs …
Read the complete definitionThe chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also lingual ribbon, and tongue. See Odontophore.
Read the complete definitionof Radula
Read the complete definitionA division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes …
Read the complete definitionThe median part of the radula of a mollusk.
Read the complete definitionA division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, …
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