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Snailfish :: Snailfish (n.) See Sea snail (a).

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

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

Snail :: Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing..

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.

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

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

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..

''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)..

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

Cochleated :: Cochleated (a.) Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

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

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

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-paced :: Snail-paced (a.) Slow-moving, like a snail..

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

Helix :: Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species..

Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the 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..

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

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