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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..

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

Glass-snail :: Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina..

Physa :: Physa (n.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond..

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

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..

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..

Snail :: Snail (n.) The pod of the sanil clover.

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..

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

Stylommatophorous :: Stylommatophora (n. pl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

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 :: 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..

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

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