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Type Words
Synonyms escargot
Type of meat
Type Words
Type of gastropod, univalve
Has types scorpion shell, edible snail, garden snail, helix pomatia
Type Words
Type of collect, garner, gather, pull together
Has types whelk


We went snailing in the summer.

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One thing we know is that these flukes live part of their life cycle in a snail.
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For example, one poem in the collection likened a woman's hair to snail innards.
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Now you can send some nifty ones of your own with digital photos via snail mail.
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If the shock is repeated several times, the snail stays hypersensitive for days.
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Ironically, one of the best ways to reach him these days is through snail mail.
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Some may lament fewer coupons by snail mail, but they'll just go digital as well.
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The snail stretched up its tentative little horns and the children smiled back.
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The move from web to rss reminds me of snail mail to email creating so much spam.
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Each shelled snail sits in herb and garlic butter with a bit of bacon underneath.
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  • Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
  • Gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
  • Escargot: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
  • Snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. ...
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  • The Snail (L'escargot), is a collage by Henri Matisse,
  • (Snails (The Format album)) Snails is the second EP and third release by American rock duo The Format. The EP was created to be sold at shows while The Format were on tour with Taking Back Sunday and Jimmy Eat World. It also became available on iTunes. ...
  • (Snails (video game)) Snails is a shooting game by PDAmill for Windows Mobile. There was also a version for Palm OS, now discontinued, and alpha/beta versions for Symbian and Microsoft Windows, which have not been updated in over a year. ...
  • Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell; A slow person; a sluggard