gastropodous en · ADJ
Etymology
From gastropod + -ous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to gastropods (snails and the like).
And yet, despite its occasionally gastropodous pacing, “Exile” delivers the sort of torn-from-the-headlines story Patterson’s fans have come to expect.
2007 February 18, Andrew Ervin, “Fiction Chronicle”, in New York Times: