Definition of snail

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Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

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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..
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..
Water Snail :: Water snail () Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail..
Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc..
Snail-like :: Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress..
Snailfish :: Snailfish (n.) See Sea snail (a).
Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
Helix :: Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species..
Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.
Cochleated :: Cochleated (a.) Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..
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..
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..
Glass-snail :: Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina..
Lim Naea :: Lim naea (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail..
Dodman :: Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod..
Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..
Water Snail :: Water snail () The Archimedean screw.
''snails :: 'Snails (interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body)..
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