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1. (n.) snail
any slow-moving gastropod mollusk, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot.
2. snail
a slow or lazy person.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE snegel, c. OS, OHG snegel, ON snigill)
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| Definition of 'snail' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) snail
freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
2. (verb) escargot, snail
edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
3. (verb) snail
gather snails
"We went snailing in the summer"
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1. (noun) snail
a slow-moving animal with a shell and a soft body
snails along the edge of the pond
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| Definition of 'snail' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) snail
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
2. (noun) snail
any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail
3. (noun) snail
hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing
4. (noun) snail
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
5. (noun) snail
a tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo
6. (noun) snail
the pod of the sanil clover
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| Definitions of 'snail' |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. snail
To snail-mail something. “Snail me a
copy of those graphics, will you?”
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Sense: a kind of soft-bodied small crawling animal with a coiled shell
Snails leave a silvery trail as they move along.
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 Afrikaans: slak |
 Arabic: حَلَزون |
 Bulgarian: охлюв |
 Brazilian: lesma |
 Czech: hlemýžď |
 German: die Schnecke |
 Danish: snegl |
 Greek: σαλιγκάρι |
 Spanish: caracol |
 Estonian: tigu |
 Farsi: حلزون |
 Finnish: etana |
 French: escargot |
 Hebrew: חִלָזוֹן |
 Hindi: घोंघा, शंबूक |
 Croatian: puž |
 Hungarian: csiga |
 Indonesian: siput |
 Icelandic: snigill |
 Italian: lumaca |
 Japanese: かたつむり |
 Korean: 달팽이 |
 Lithuanian: sraigė |
 Latvian: gliemezis |
 Malay: siput |
 Dutch: slak |
 Norwegian: snegl |
 Polish: ślimak |
 Persian: حلزون |
 Pashto: اوښكۍ، دوښوپشى (حلزون |
 Portuguese: caracol |
 Romanian: melc |
 Russian: улитка |
 Slovak: slimák |
 Slovenian: polž |
 Serbian: puž |
 Swedish: snigel |
 Thai: หอยทาก |
 Turkish: salyangoz |
 Taiwanese: 蝸牛 |
 Ukrainian: слимак |
 Urdu: گھونگا |
 Vietnamese: conốc sên |
 Chinese: 蜗牛 |
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