gastropod

Other forms of gastropod

plural

gastropods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gastropod

What does gastropod mean?

gastropod means "a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes".

How many syllables are in gastropod?

gastropod has 3 syllables: ga-stro-pod. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for gastropod?

Close synonyms include univalve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gastropod a common word?

gastropod is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.