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sea⋅snail

[see-sneyl]
–noun, plural (especially collectively) -snail, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -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:
bef. 1000; ME seesnail, OE sǣsnǣgl. See sea, snail
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