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Gasteromycetes Gasteromycetes Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ?
stomach + ? a mushroom.] (Bot.)
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac
called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
Gasteropod Gasteropod Gas"ter*o*pod, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Same as Gastropod.
gasteropod Gastropod Gas"tro*pod, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the Gastropoda. [Written also gasteropod.]
Gasteropoda Gasteropoda Gas`te*rop`o*da, n. pl. (Zo["o]l.)
Same as Gastropoda.
Gasteropoda Gastropoda Gas*trop"o*da, n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, stomach
+ -poda.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes
most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and
fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat,
muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The
head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See
Mollusca. [Written also Gasteropoda.]
Note: The Gastropoda are divided into three subclasses; viz.:
(a) The Streptoneura or Dioecia, including the
Pectinibranchiata, Rhipidoglossa, Docoglossa, and
Heteropoda. (b) The Euthyneura, including the
Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia. (c) The Amphineura,
including the Polyplacophora and Aplacophora.
Gasteropodous Gasteropodous Gas`ter*op"o*dous, a. (Zo["o]l.)
Same as Gastropodous.
Gasterosteus aculeatus Burnstickle Burn"stic`kle, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
Gasterosteus cataphractus Note: The salmons ascend rivers and penetrate to their head
streams to spawn. They are remarkably strong fishes,
and will even leap over considerable falls which lie in
the way of their progress. The common salmon has been
known to grow to the weight of seventy-five pounds;
more generally it is from fifteen to twenty-five
pounds. Young salmon are called parr, peal, smolt, and
grilse. Among the true salmons are:
Black salmon, or Lake salmon, the namaycush.
Dog salmon, a salmon of Western North America
(Oncorhynchus keta).
Humpbacked salmon, a Pacific-coast salmon (Oncorhynchus
gorbuscha).
King salmon, the quinnat.
Landlocked salmon, a variety of the common salmon (var.
Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence
of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the
sea. This last is called also dwarf salmon.
Note: Among fishes of other families which are locally and
erroneously called salmon are: the pike perch, called
jack salmon; the spotted, or southern, squeteague;
the cabrilla, called kelp salmon; young pollock,
called sea salmon; and the California yellowtail.
2. A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the
salmon.
Salmon berry (Bot.), a large red raspberry growing from
Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus.
Salmon killer (Zo["o]l.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus
cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia.
Salmon ladder, Salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under
Fish.
Salmon peel, a young salmon.
Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. --Crabb.
Salmon trout. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles
the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more
numerous scales.
(b) The American namaycush.
(c) A name that is also applied locally to the adult black
spotted trout (Salmo purpuratus), and to the steel
head and other large trout of the Pacific coast.
Gasterosteus spinachia Sea adder Sea" ad"der (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus
spinachia); -- called also bismore.
(b) The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus).
Gasterosteus spinachia Bismer Bis"mer, n.
1. A rule steelyard. [Scot.]
2. (Zo["o]l.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).
Pulmogasteropoda Pulmogasteropoda Pul`mo*gas`te*rop"o*da, n. pl. [NL. & E.
Gasteropoda.] (Zo["o]l.)
Same as Pulmonata.
