seasnail

[see-sneyl]

sea·snail

[see-sneyl]
noun, plural (especially collectively) sea·snail, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) sea·snails.
1.
any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
2.
any of several marine gastropods having a spirally coiled shell, as a whelk.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English seesnail, Old English sǣsnǣgl. See sea, snail
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seasnail

noun
1. small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish [syn: snailfish
2. any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids 
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