Definitions for radula

radula rad·u·la

Spelling: [raj-oo-luh]
IPA: /ˈrædʒ ʊ lə/

Radula is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in radula (aadlru).

Definitions for radula

noun

  1. a chitinous band in the mouth of most mollusks, set with numerous, minute, horny teeth and drawn backward and forward over the floor of the mouth in the process of breaking up food.

Origin of radula

1745-55; New Latin rādula, Latin: scraper, equivalent to rād(ere) to scrape, rub + -ula -ule

Examples for radula

This is called the radula, and is used for tearing or rasping the food.

The radula is a most important organ, and is a unique possession of Mollusca, except the pelecypods, or bivalves.

The radula has 160 rows of teeth with twelve teeth in each row.

Lingual ribbon: The chitinous band of teeth, or rasp, borne upon the odontophore; the radula.

It is a mollusk because it has a mantle, a foot, and a radula.

All the mollusca, except the bivalves, are provided with this radula.

radula with a median tooth and a single tooth on each side of it.

Most numerous was Gigartina radula, just in a state of fructification.

Conus is accused of having a poison-gland connected with the radula and of having shown vicious traits when captured.

radula with a median tooth and three teeth on each side of it.

Word Value for radula
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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