(of fish) migrating from salt water to spawn in fresh water, as salmon of the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus (distinguished from catadromous). Origin of anadromous.
A: A snail scrapes its food, rather than chews it like we humans do. A flexible structure called the radula in the snailâs mouth is lined with neatly organized rows and columns of tiny tooth-like projections. The snail moves its radula over the food, scrapes off bits of it, and swallows.
Digestion begins in the mouth with the action of salivary amylase. The food material then progresses past the esophagus and into the stomach. A bolus (soft mass) of chewed food moves by muscular wave actions, called peristalsis, from the mouth to the pharynx, and then past the epiglottis that covers the larynx.