Snail
11snail — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ edible ▪ aquatic, land, marine, pond, sea, water SNAIL + NOUN ▪ she …
12snail — [OE] Snail, like German dialect schnägel, Swedish snigel, and Danish snegl, comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *snag , *sneg ‘crawl’, which also produced German schnecke ‘snail’ and English snake. Lithuanian snāke ‘snail’ is a distant… …
13snail — UK [sneɪl] / US noun [countable] Word forms snail : singular snail plural snails a small animal that has a soft body, no legs, and a hard shell on its back. Snails move very slowly. • at a snail s pace …
14snail — [OE] Snail, like German dialect schnägel, Swedish snigel, and Danish snegl, comes from a prehistoric Germanic base *snag , *sneg ‘crawl’, which also produced German schnecke ‘snail’ and English snake. Lithuanian snāke ‘snail’ is a distant… …
15snail — Common name for members of the class Gastropoda (phylum Mollusca). The freshwater pulmonate (nonoperculated, air breathing) snails (subclass Pulmonata, order Basommatophora) include the majority of intermediate hosts of trematodes parasitic in… …
16snail — n. 1. Slug. 2. Drone, idler, sluggard, laggard, slug. 3. Snail clover, snail trefoil (Medicago scutellata) …
17snail — Kamaloli, pūpū, homeka. See shell. ♦ Fresh water snail, hīhīwai, wī. ♦ Chinese snail, pūpū Pākē, pūpū lo i …
18snail — n. any slow moving gastropod mollusc with a spiral shell able to enclose the whole body. Phrases and idioms: snail s pace a very slow movement. Derivatives: snail like adj. Etymology: OE snaeligg(e)l f. Gmc …
19snail — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English snægl; akin to Old High German snecko snail, snahhan to creep Date: before 12th century 1. a gastropod mollusk especially when having an external enclosing spiral shell 2. a slow moving or… …
20Snail — Schneckenpost Schneckenpost nannte man früher Postzustellungen, die erheblich über der durchschnittlichen Zustellzeit lagen. Heute steht der Begriff aufgrund der ungleichen Übermittlungsgeschwindigkeit für jede traditionelle Briefpost im… …
