/pul"meuh nayt', -nit, pool"-/ , adj.
1. Zool. having lungs or lunglike organs.
2. belonging to the Pulmonata, an order of gastropod mollusks usually breathing by means of a lunglike sac, and including most of the terrestrial snails and the slugs and certain aquatic snails.
n.
3. a pulmonate gastropod.
[ 1835-45; pulmonatus. See PULMONARY, -ATE 1 ]