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Sea Snail :: Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc..

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

Ianthina :: Ianthina (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail..

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..

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

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

Pouch-shell :: Pouch-shell (n.) A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

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

Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.

Basommatophora :: Basommatophora (n. pl.) A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails..

Helicoid :: Helicoid (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Dodman :: Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod..

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

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.

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