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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1913 Webster ]
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
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