Snail

Noun

 * 1) Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
 * 2) A slow person; a sluggard.

Verbs for Snail
cultivate—; prey on—; search for—; uncover—; —buries; —crawls; —emerges; — hides.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From the Middle English snegge:, from the Old English snägel: from the.

Derived terms

 * snail's pace

Translations

 * Albanian: kërmill
 * Arabic: (ħalazūna)
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian:
 * Aymara:
 * Azeri: ilbiz
 * Basque: barraskilo
 * Belarusian:
 * Bemba: ín-kolâ
 * Bengali:
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: caragol
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏆ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Dong: ngù-mō̤-ngù-giāng
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: (this can also mean slug, so snail in Danish is more fully snegl med skal)
 * Dutch:, huisjesslak
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German: any animal of the class Gastropoda, also without shell, Gehäuseschnecke
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: jatyta
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: स्थलीय घोंघा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: heliko
 * Indonesian:, keong,
 * Interlingua: limace
 * Irish:, seilmide
 * Isthmus Zapotec: bichubé
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 蝸牛 (カタツムリ, katatsumuri)
 * Korean: 달팽이 (dalpaeng'i)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: gliemezis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Macedonian: полжав


 * Malay:
 * Maltese: bebbuxu
 * Manx:
 * Mazanderani:
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sotho:
 * Norwegian: snegle
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: snægl
 * Old Irish: ,
 * Ossetian:
 * Pennsylvania German:
 * Persian: (hâlazun)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: caramujo,
 * Quechua: ch'uru
 * Romagnolo: lumég
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: serp
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: puž
 * Shona: hózhwe
 * Sicilian:, bucalaci ,  (big snail), stuppateddu  (edible snail)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: konokono (nc 5/6)
 * Swati: um-nenkhé
 * Swedish:, snigel
 * Tagalog: kuhol
 * Telugu: నత్త
 * Thai: (hŏi tâak)
 * Turkish:, sümüklüböcek
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Urdu:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: snel,  hisnel,  jisnel,  snelül,  hisnelül,  jisnelül
 * Welsh: malwoden
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:
 * Yucatec: urich, uul


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * anils
 * nails
 * slain