| 单词 | snail |
| 释义 | snail (once / 1833 pages) nv WORD FAMILY snail: snailed, snailing, snails USAGE EXAMPLES“We’ve got tons of snails,” Washington said, ten minutes into the census. The New Yorker(Dec 26, 2016) “It’s almost like the whole system is slowly being shamed into diversity, but it’s moving at a snail’s pace.” New York Times(May 25, 2016) But all men -- but presidential and plebeian -- are ultimately beholden to the lifestyles of the might whorl snail. Golf Digest(Dec 07, 2016) 1n freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell Hypo|Hyper scorpion shell any of numerous tropical marine snails that as adults have the outer lip of the aperture produced into a series of long curved spines Helix pomatia, edible snailone of the chief edible snails garden snailany of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests Helix aspersa, brown snailserious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution Helix hortensisa kind of garden snail gastropod, univalve a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes 2n edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic Syn|Hyper escargot meat the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food 3v gather snails We went snailing in the summer Hypo|Hyper whelk gather whelk collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together |
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