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snail    音标拼音: [sn'el]
n. 蜗牛,行动迟缓的人,脑筋迟钝的人

蜗牛,行动迟缓的人,脑筋迟钝的人

snail
n 1: freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk
usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
2: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a
sauce of melted butter and garlic [synonym: {escargot}, {snail}]
v 1: gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"

Snail \Snail\ (sn[=a]l), n. [OE. snaile, AS. sn[ae]gel, snegel,
sn[ae]gl; akin to G. schnecke, OHG. snecko, Dan. snegl, Icel.
snigill.]
1. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial
air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix
and many allied genera of the family {Helicidae}. They
are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except
the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on
vegetation; a land snail.
(b) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true
snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See
{Pond snail}, under {Pond}, and {Sea snail}.
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2. Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
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3. (Mech.) 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.
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4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to
protect besiegers; a testudo. [Obs.]
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They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . .
that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or
of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow
pavises and targets, under the which men, when they
fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail
is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.
--Vegetius
(Trans.).
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5. (Bot.) The pod of the sanil clover.
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{Ear snail}, {Edible snail}, {Pond snail}, etc. See under
{Ear}, {Edible}, etc.

{Snail borer} (Zool.), a boring univalve mollusk; a drill.

{Snail clover} (Bot.), a cloverlike plant ({Medicago
scuttellata}, also, {Medicago Helix}); -- so named from
its pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called
also {snail trefoil}, {snail medic}, and {beehive}.

{Snail flower} (Bot.), a leguminous plant ({Phaseolus
Caracalla}) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled
like a snail shell.

{Snail shell} (Zool.), the shell of snail.

{Snail trefoil}. (Bot.) See {Snail clover}, above.
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53 Moby Thesaurus words for "snail":
Chilopoda, Chordata, Dungeness crab, Echiuroidea, Ectoprocta,
Entoprocta, Japanese crab, Monoplacophora, Nemertinea, Phoronidea,
blue point, clam, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish,
dawdle, dawdler, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, laggard,
langouste, lie-abed, limpet, lingerer, littleneck clam, lobster,
loiterer, mussel, oyster, periwinkle, plodder, prawn,
procrastinator, quahog, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, sleepyhead,
slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard,
soft-shell crab, steamer, stick-in-the-mud, tortoise, whelk

snail: vt. To snail-mail something. “Snail me a
copy of those graphics, will you?”

Snail
(1.) Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Lev. 11:30).
This was probably the sand-lizard, of which there are many
species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula.

(2.) Heb. shablul (Ps. 58:8), the snail or slug proper.
Tristram explains the allusions of this passage by a reference
to the heat and drought by which the moisture of the snail is
evaporated. "We find," he says, "in all parts of the Holy Land
myriads of snail-shells in fissures still adhering by the
calcareous exudation round their orifice to the surface of the
rock, but the animal of which is utterly shrivelled and wasted,
'melted away.'"


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