n pl :  a family of thin-shelled air-breathing freshwater snails (suborder Basommatophora) that have an elongate ovoidal shell with a large opening and a simple lip and that include numerous species important as intermediate hosts of trematode worms - see FOSSARIA GALBA LYMNAEA  lym*nae*id adj or n 
 
 
 
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