Lingual ribbon

(Zool.) See Odontophore.

See also: Lingual

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Miss Davies says:--"The radula is large, as is usual in the carnivorous land mollusca." This radula, or lingual ribbon, measured in the specimen examined by Miss Davies about 20 x 5 mm, which is about five times the area of that of an ordinary slug or snail of equal size.
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