Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Prosobranchiata

Prosobranchiata , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} forward, further + {not transcribed} a gill.]

(Zoology) The highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.