Snail Definition

snāl
snails
noun
snails
Any of a large number of slow-moving gastropods living on land or in water and having a spiral protective shell: some kinds are used as food.
Webster's New World
Any lazy, slow-moving person or animal.
Webster's New World

(engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

Wiktionary

(military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

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The pod of the snail clover.

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Noun

Singular:
snail
Plural:
snails

Origin of Snail

  • From the Middle English snegge, from the Old English snægel from the Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English snægl

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Snail Sentence Examples

  • In this duct and sac the spermatophores received in copulation from another snail are lodged.

  • Carmen continued at a snail's pace across the floor.

  • The number of cercariae produced by the pullulating rediae in a single water-snail is immense, and as they are emitted at a given period or a few successive periods, the snail at these times appears enclosed in a cloud of whitish flocculent matter.

  • Is it purely as a pet, for eggs, as a snail and slug deterrent or for meat?

  • There is not a very large amount of food-material present in the egg of this snail, and accordingly the cells resulting from division are not so unequal as in many other cases.

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Words Starting With

SSNSNA

Words Ending With

LILAIL

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Words Starting With S and Ending With L

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With S5 Letter Words Ending With L