Snail

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definition
noun
Large or small, landlubbers or seafarers or both, hermit crabs have one feature in common: they generally spend their lives inside the empty shells of snails or other mollusks.
a mollusk with a single spiral shell into which the whole body can be withdrawn.
translation of 'snail'
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a tedious and complicated process enough to exasperate a 'snail'
The Quitobaquito spring snail is a tiny, 0.06 inch long aquatic 'snail' that belongs to the Hydrobiidae family.
Many snails have an operculum, a horny plate that seals the opening when the 'snail' 's body is drawn into the shell.
The cone shell is a marine 'snail' that lives in tropical regions worldwide, including the waters around northeastern Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Okay, he's a 'snail' . He has to hustle to keep up as the pair walk down the street.
The auto industry is a huge 'snail' moving at its own slow pace day to day.
The exotic mud 'snail' , Batillaria attramentaria, is common in a few bays and estuaries at the northern extent of C. californica's range.
The vast majority of such techniques lagged behind the state-of-the-art in microprocessor design, though this was neutralised since cutting edge ideas slither their way 'snaillike' into safety-critical system design, if at all.
Molluscicides destroy 'snails' and slugs, which can be pests of agriculture or, in waterbodies, the vector of human diseases such as schistosomiasis.
Lobsters are bottom-feeding predators and their diet consists of worms, mussels, 'snails' and other small marine bottom-dwelling organisms.
Ruddy kingfishers in the Philippines remove land 'snails' from their shells by smashing them against stones on the forest floor.
Located here is the cochlea, a 'snaillike' structure full of fluid and microscopic hairs.
Large or small, landlubbers or seafarers or both, hermit crabs have one feature in common: they generally spend their lives inside the empty shells of 'snails' or other mollusks.
To a field emerging from the stultifying methodology of psychoanalysis in the 1970s, with its 'snaillike' pace and verbal meanderings, Minuchin was a revelation.
It took Christian gently prodding me in the back to get me to move and by the time I got to Callia's room I was walking at a 'snaillike' pace.
Bluegills are carnivores, primarily eating invertebrates such as 'snails' , worms, shrimp, aquatic insects, small crayfish, and zooplankton.
The small body size of Pacific land 'snails' has been considered indicative of the importance of aerial transport, with drift transport secondary.
They're 'snails' when it comes to service. They don't greet you at all and it's just a rude place.
Many predators will take a wide variety of prey, but some species of snakes feed exclusively on other snakes, others want only rodents, and still others concentrate on 'snails' or scorpions.
Many larger animals (including 'snails' , sand dollars, and fish) eat forams, and some are very selective about which species they eat.
As gardeners already know, all other slugs and 'snails' (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
But to keep the audience guessing the 'snails' are designed to slow down and give away their lead.
Fossil records show that sponges and jellyfish, worms of countless sorts, 'snaillike' mollusks, and a host of arthropodal ancestors to the crab emerged biologically whole in the Cambrian.
Some 'snails' , sea slugs, and worms embed embryos in gel, often in the form of thin strings or beautiful coiled ribbons that undulate gracefully in the current.
For most species of 'snails' , shells and body plans curl in only one direction.
The average shell strength of mud 'snails' was twice that of Littorina, and three times that of Uca.
As for cone 'snails' , their shells are collected and sold by the thousands at curio shops to tourists.
These loose mats provide a sheltered and humid habitat for many mid shore animals, including shore crabs, littorinid 'snails' , barnacles, mussels, young fish, lugworms and other invertebrates.
Slipper limpet 'snails' are infesting Puget Sound, off the coast of Washington State.
Most of the more recent success stories involve 'snails' , isopods, and other marine animals that have colonized leaf litter or remained in environments close to the seashore.
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