noun
- small marine gastropod mollusks that swim using wing-like extensions of their foot
Usage: zoological
Examples
- Pteropods are important components of marine food webs.
- The researcher collected pteropods from the plankton samples.
- Ocean acidification threatens pteropod populations worldwide.
- These tiny pteropods migrate vertically in the water column each day.
- Pteropods use their wing-like appendages to propel themselves through the water.
- Many fish species depend on pteropods as a food source.