Defenition of the word snail
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Defenition of the word snail
- (Gastropoda) Ventral footed mollusk, including land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- gather snails: "We went snailing in the summer"
- gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
- gather snails
Synonyms for the word snail
Hyponyms for the word snail
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- edible snail
- garden snail
- Helix pomatia
- scorpion shell
- whelk
Hypernyms for the word snail
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- collect
- garner
- gastropod
- gather
- meat
- pull together
- univalve
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