[
US
/ˈsneɪɫ/
]
[ UK /snˈeɪl/ ]
[ UK /snˈeɪl/ ]
NOUN
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
VERB
-
gather snails
We went snailing in the summer
How To Use snail In A Sentence
- Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
- In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity. Archive 2009-07-01
- It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
- As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
- The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet. Archive 2006-04-01
- And he has decided to treat them as if they were tribolites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis, and try to derive their genealogical history over time.
- Also, in answering your other question, I think to contact him you should write an honest-to-god letter and send it via snail mail. A Brother By Any Other Name | Her Bad Mother
- Water snails don't eat living plants, just decaying vegetation and algae.
- How about snails in hot tomato sauce, or refried cauliflower with garlic cloves?
- The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail.