| NOUN | animal | snail | freshwater or marine or terrestrial / terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell |
|---|---|---|---|
| food | snail, escargot | edible terrestrial / terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | |
| VERB | contact | snail | gather snails |
| Sounds | sney'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ail ... Yale: 95 rhymes with eyl... | |
| Meaning | Freshwater or marine or terrestrial / terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | edible snail, Helix pomatia | One of the chief edible snails |
| garden snail | Any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix | |
| 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 | |
| Broader | gastropod, univalve | A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes |
| Spanish | caracol | |
| Catalan | caragol, cargol | |
| Verbs | snail | gather snails |
| Meaning | edible terrestrial / terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | escargot | |
| Broader | meat | The flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| Substance of | edible snail, Helix pomatia | One of the chief edible snails |
| Spanish | caracol, escargot | |
| Catalan | cargol, escargot | |
| Verbs | snail | gather snails |
| Meaning | Gather snails. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and snail | |
| Example | "We went snailing in the summer" | |
| Narrower | whelk | Gather whelk |
| Broader | gather, garner, collect, pull together | Assemble or get together |
| Spanish | buscar caracoles | |
| Nouns | snail | freshwater or marine or terrestrial / terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell |
| snail | edible terrestrial / terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic | |
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