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sea snail
noun
- any small spiny-finned fish of the family Liparidae, esp Liparis liparis, of cold seas, having a soft scaleless tadpole-shaped body with the pelvic fins fused into a sucker Also calledsnailfish
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Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
From The Daily Beast
The way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.
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At least eighty per cent of the possible oyster crop is destroyed by this sea-snail.
From Project Gutenberg
It is sometimes called the sea snail, and is found on the marine grass in harbours, as well as in the open sea.
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These shrimps, and the little hermit-crab, and the buccinum (a small black sea-snail) are Nature's house-cleaners.
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So he always tucks it away in an empty shell like that of a whelk or a sea-snail, which he drags about with him wherever he goes!
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