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Synonyms

  1. escargot

Words Described by "Snail"

  1. shells
  2. mail
  3. shell
  4. host
  5. pace
  6. track
  7. tracks
  8. darter
  9. populations
  10. fever

What Google Knows

A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.

Related Definition

  1. snail:

    n Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

    n (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.

    n (engineering) 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.

    n (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

    n The pod of the snail clover.

    n (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

    v To move or travel very slowly.


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