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Foot :: Foot (n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum..

Shard :: Shard (n.) A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail..

Snail-paced :: Snail-paced (a.) Slow-moving, like a snail..

Snail-like :: Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress..

Water Snail :: Water snail () Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like..

Snailfish :: Snailfish (n.) See Sea snail (a).

Slug :: Slug (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails..

Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.

Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..

Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..

Vertigo :: Vertigo (n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture..

Achatina :: Achatina (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa..

Paludina :: Paludina (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond..

Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..

Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..

Gastropoda :: Gastropoda (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca..

Cochleated :: Cochleated (a.) Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail..

Water Snail :: Water snail () The Archimedean screw.

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