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snail
[ sneyl ]
noun
- any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- a slow or lazy person; sluggard.
- Machinery. a cam having the form of a spiral.
- Midwestern and Western U.S. a sweet roll in spiral form, especially a cinnamon roll or piece of Danish pastry.
snail
/ sneɪl /
noun
- any of numerous terrestrial or freshwater gastropod molluscs with a spirally coiled shell, esp any of the family Helicidae, such as Helix aspersa ( garden snail )
- any other gastropod with a spirally coiled shell, such as a whelk
- a slow-moving or lazy person or animal
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Derived Forms
- ˈsnail-ˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- snaillike adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of snail1
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Origin of snail1
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Example Sentences
Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.
The way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.
The green damp hung upon the low walls, and the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light; but all was still as death.
They were well-to-do folk and, according to Cesar Birotteau who knew them, old man Crottat was as "close as a snail."
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Aye, there it was, slowly winding up the steep white road, on which it seemed to move at a snail's pace.
And in some respects that something that looked so very much like a railway resembled not so much a snail as a snake.
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