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Snail-like :: Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress..

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

Univalve :: Univalve (n.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs..

Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.

Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

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

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

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

Lim Naea :: Lim naea (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail..

Fungivorous :: Fungivorous (a.) Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

Snail :: Snail (n.) 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..

Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..

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

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..

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..

''snails :: 'Snails (interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body)..

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..

Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..

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

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