Pl. bulimi. [mod.Lat., a. Gr. βουλῑμός, occurring only as a sb. (see BULIMY), but perh. regarded as an adj. with sense ‘having a voracious appetite.’] The scientific name of a genus of terrestrial gasteropods. Hence Bulimiform a.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 384. Terrestrial shells, chiefly helices and spiral bulimi.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca, II. 165. Achatina Variegata … shell imperforate, bulimiform.
1866. Tate, Brit. Mollusks, iv. 164. The animal is bulimus-like.
