snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snāl
ipa: /sneɪl/
ipa: [sn̥eɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: snails
Etymology: From Middle English snayl, snail, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
glosses: A slow person; a sluggard.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
glosses: The pod of the snail clover.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
Synonyms: sense: animal
word: dodman
sense: animal
word: hodmandod
Derived terms: taxonomic: Achatinidae spp.
word: achatine snail
taxonomic: Achatina spp.
word: African snail
taxonomic: Achatina achatina
word: agate snail
word: amber snail
taxonomic: Succineidae spp.
word: ambersnail
taxonomic: Ampullariidae spp.
word: apple snail
alt: Lenameria dispar
word: Australian snail
alt: Subulinidae spp.
word: awl snail
alt: Angustassiminea infima
word: Badwater snail
taxonomic: Cassidae spp.
word: bonnet snail
word: boulder snail
alt: Austrochloritis spp.
word: bristle snail
word: brown-lipped snail
alt: Cornu aspersum
word: brown snail
taxonomic: Bulla spp.
word: bubble snail
taxonomic: Helix pomatia
word: Burgundy snail
alt: Xenophora spp.
word: carrier snail
word: Chinese hat snail
word: cinnamon snail
taxonomic: Conidae spp.
word: cone snail
alt: Rumina decollata
word: decollate snail
word: dew snail
taxonomic: Zospeum tholussum
word: domed land snail
taxonomic: Clausiliidae spp.
word: door snail
taxonomic: Ellobiidae spp.
word: ear snail
taxonomic: Helix pomatia
word: edible snail
taxonomic: Papustyla pulcherrima
word: emerald green snail
word: Finger Snail
word: flying snail
alt: Cornu aspersum
word: garden snail
taxonomic: Achatina spp.
word: giant snail
taxonomic: Vitrinidae spp.
word: glass snail
alt: Turbo marmoratus; Helix aperta
word: green snail
taxonomic: Cepaea nemoralis
word: grove snail
taxonomic: Harpidae spp.
word: harp snail
taxonomic: Cassidae spp.
word: helmet snail
word: housesnail
taxonomic: Viviparus malleatus
word: Japanese snail
taxonomic: Caenogastropoda spp. etc.
word: land snail
taxonomic: Viviparus contectus
word: Lister's river snail
taxonomic: Truncatella spp.
word: looping snail
taxonomic: Otala lactea
alt: syn. Helix lactea
word: milk snail
taxonomic: Naticidae spp.
word: moon snail
alt: †Partula mirabilis
word: Moorean viviparous tree snail
english: Corbulidae spp.; Lymnaea truncatella
translation: Corbulidae spp.; Lymnaea truncatella
word: mud snail
taxonomic: Muricidae spp.
word: murex snail
taxonomic: Viviparidae spp.
word: mystery snail
alt: Erinna newcombi
word: Newcomb's snail
alt: Oliviae spp.
word: olive snail
taxonomic: Assimineidae spp.
word: palm-leaf snail
taxonomic: Truncatelloidea spp.
word: pebblesnail
taxonomic: Partula spp.
alt: Somoana spp.
word: Polynesian tree snail
taxonomic: Lymnaeidae spp.
word: pond snail
alt: Janthina janthina
word: purple storm snail
word: rack and snail
taxonomic: Planorbidae spp.
word: ramshorn snail
taxonomic: Viviparidae spp.
word: river snail
taxonomic: Leptoxis spp.
word: rocksnail
taxonomic: Helix pomatia
word: Roman snail
taxonomic: Chrysomallon squamiferum
word: scaly-foot snail
taxonomic: Gastropoda spp.
word: sea snail
taxonomic: Helminthoglypta spp.
word: shoulderband snail
word: slow as a snail
word: slug snail
taxonomic: Stylommatophora spp.
word: slugsnail
word: snail butter
taxonomic: Percina tanasi
word: snail darter
word: snail fever
taxonomic: Liparidae spp.
word: snailfish
word: snail king
taxonomic: Rostrhamus sociabilis
word: snail kite
word: snail mail
word: snail-mail
word: snail-sense feminism
word: snail's pace
word: snail pace
word: snail-paced
word: snail syrup
word: snail trail
taxonomic: Medicago scutellata
word: snail trefoil
word: snail-wheel
alt: Trochulus striolatus
word: strawberry snail
taxonomic: Trochidae spp. etc.
word: top snail
taxonomic: Fasciolaria spp.
word: tulip snail
taxonomic: Turbinidae spp.
word: turban snail
taxonomic: Valvata utahensis
word: Utah roundmouth snail
taxonomic: Valvata spp.
word: valve snail
alt: Janthina janthina
word: violet snail
taxonomic: Chrysomallon squamiferum
word: volcano snail
word: water snail
taxonomic: Cepaea hortensis
word: white-lipped snail
alt: Helix pomatia; Helix pisana
word: white snail
taxonomic: Vertiginidae spp.
word: whorl snail
taxonomic: Pteropoda spp.
word: wing snail
taxonomic: Helix nemoralis
word: wood snail
word: zombie snail
Related terms: heliciculture
slug