snail
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- noun
- /sneɪl/
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- A number of species of sea snails collected from the same rocks are the likely culprits.
- land snail
- snail's pace
- snail shells
Umm, there are hermaphrodites like earthworms and snails who, who do both.
- Umm, there are hermaphrodites like earthworms and snails who, who do both.
- So solve the Ant problem, solve the slug and snail problem and you're set.
- There was talk of snails with counterclockwise spiraling shells.
- So those are five ways to reducing slugs and snails in your garden.
- Plastostomos, snails wiped out by a cement company.
- Slime is the main loss of energy for a snail is making it slime.
- You can see here that it recreates the snail mucin texture without harming any snails.
- And then she put like snail emojis and all of that kind of stuff.
Examples
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I'd be most interested to see a snail house.
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Good morning, Roz, my succulent little garden snail.
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Leave us, my little snail.
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Do you know anything about snails, Don?
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So from now on, we're going to study snails, eh?
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Well, if you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails.
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Slow like... a snail?
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Then she stops, bends, retrieves a snail shell, and keeps going.
Fiction book (1996) -
I've never seen Ollie go more than a snail's face in my life.
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In the garden, I spotted a snail slowly making its way across the wet leaves.
Compounds
- Specialized
A tropical climbing plant with yellow and purple coiled flowers like a snail shell
- Specialized
A climbing tropical plant with yellow and purple flowers whose lower part is curled like a snail shell
- Specialized
A small freshwater fish that eats snails and lives in the Tennessee River
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A climbing vine with bright yellow and purple flowers that coil like a snail shell
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Snail comes from the old English word snægl, which was the name people used for the small animal with a soft body and a 'spiral shell'. So snail still means that slow, soft creature you often find in gardens.