snail : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), a fresh-water, operculated, spiral shell of the genus Ampullaria.

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• noun serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
  Helix aspersa.
  

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• noun rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking
  cinnamon bun; cinnamon roll.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any snail of the genus Auricula and allied genera.

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• etc. See under Ear, Edible, etc.

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• noun one of the chief edible snails
  Helix pomatia.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

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• noun any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests
  

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Glass"-snail` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

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• (Zoöl.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Dioecia, and belong to the Tænioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix.

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• (Zoöl.), any species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

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• (Zoöl.), any gastropod living in fresh-water ponds or lakes. The most common kinds are air-breathing snails (Pulmonifera) belonging to Limnæa, Physa, Planorbis, and allied genera. The operculated species are pectinibranchs, belonging to Melantho, Valvata, and various other genera.

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• (Zoöl.), any species of fresh-water gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera. See Pond snail, under Pond.

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• noun small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
  seasnail; snailfish; Liparis liparis.
  

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Sea" snail`

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1. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. (b) Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.

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• noun perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
  Phaseolus caracalla; snailflower; snail bean; corkscrew flower; snail flower; Vigna caracalla.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a boring univalve mollusk; a drill.

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• noun for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley
  

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• (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (Medicago scuttellata, also, M. Helix); so named from its pods, which resemble the shells of snails; called also snail trefoil, snail medic, and beehive.

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• noun a small snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River
  Percina tanasi.
  

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• noun perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
  Phaseolus caracalla; snailflower; snail bean; corkscrew flower; snail flower; Vigna caracalla.
  

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• (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Phaseolus Caracalla) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled like a snail shell.

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• noun any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service
  
  • email is much faster than snail mail

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• (Zoöl.), the shell of snail.

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• . (Bot.) See Snail clover, above.

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• noun perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
  Phaseolus caracalla; snailflower; snail bean; corkscrew flower; snail flower; Vigna caracalla.
  

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Snail"-like` adjective

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1. Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.

Snail"-like` adverb

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1. In the manner of a snail; slowly.

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Snail"-paced` adjective

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1. Slow-moving, like a snail.

   Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.

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Wa"ter snail`

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1. (Zoöl.) Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.
2. (Mech.) The Archimedean screw. R.

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