byüˈlīməs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, probably from Latin, great hunger, from Greek boulimos, from bous head of cattle + limos hunger — more at cow , less
1. : a genus of small freshwater snails that is the type of the family Bulimidae and includes a species ( B. fuchsianus ) that is the chief intermediate host of the Chinese liver fluke
2. in former classifications : a genus of land snails somewhat equivalent to the family Bulimulidae