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"SNAILS" is a plural of: snail. |
Date "SNAILS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Marine, freshwater, or terrestrial mollusks of the class Gastropoda. Most have an enclosing spiral shell, and several genera harbor parasites pathogenic to man. (references) |
Literature | Snails have no sex, "chacun remissant les deux sexes." (Anglo-Saxon, snægl.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name snail applies to most members of the mollusc class Gastropoda, which have coiled shellss. Other gastropods, which lack conspicuous shells, are called slugs, and are scattered throughout groups that primarily include snails. Snails are found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments.
Snails move like worms by alternating body contractions with stretching, with a proverbially low speed (hence the term snail mail for postal services). They produce a slime in order to aid locomotion by reducing friction. The slime also reduces the snail's risk of injury and helps keep away potentially dangerous insects like ants. In winter some snail species hibernate in their shells by closing the opening with a thin shell-like plate that they build only for this use and destroy in spring. Even some slug species build a shell-like object below their upper skin.
Snails are eaten in several countries of Europe - "escargot" in France, for instance - where they are considered a delicacy.
The best know for the edible snail is ''Helix pomatia’’. The brown garden snail(European brown snail) has another name, ''Helix aspersa’’. Both species belongs to the Genus Helix.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snail."
Crosswords: SNAILS |
| English words defined with "SNAILS": Achatina ♦ Basommatophora, Bulimus ♦ caiman lizard, class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda ♦ Dart sac ♦ edible snail, Escargatoire ♦ family Helicidae, family Physidae, Fungivorous ♦ garden snail, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda, genus Physa, Geophila ♦ Helicidae, Helix pomatia ♦ Land snail, Lung sac ♦ meat ♦ neritina ♦ order Pulmonata ♦ Physidae, Pulmonata ♦ scorpion shell, Snail clover, Stylommatophora ♦ Tyrian purple ♦ univalve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SNAILS": Angiostrongylus cantonensis ♦ Biomphalaria, Bulinus ♦ Clonorchis sinensis ♦ Female, freshwater snails ♦ HODMANDODS ♦ Lymnaea ♦ Molluscacides ♦ Opisthorchis ♦ Snail, SNAILER, Stephens. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SNAILS": Cochleary. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails. We tried everything to get rid of them (The Man Who Knew Too Much; writing credit: Charles Bennett; D.B. Wyndham-Lewis) Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral (Spartacus; writing credit: Howard Fast; Dalton Trumbo) Snips and snails and puppy dog's tails (Rosemary's Baby; writing credit: Roman Polanski) | |
Lyrics | FROM LITTLE SNAILS (Jocko Homo; performing artist: Devo) | |
Tongue Twisters | Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Puerto Rican seeding stream with Marisa snails for control of Australorbis (Biomphalaria) snails. Credit: CDC. |  | Worker dipping for Australorbis snails in stream. Credit: CDC. |
 | Marsh snails, Littorina littorina. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Two types of marsh snails. The one on the right is Littorina littorina. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The diamond-back terrapin is a year-round resident in estuaries and feeds on fiddler crabs and snails. This female terrapin is returning to the water after successfully nesting above the tide line. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Plate 254. Sea Snails, Periwinkles, Drills, and Borers. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid swimming near or wading in marshy areas where snails are commonly found. (references) | |
The eggs hatch, and if certain types of snails are present in the water, the parasites grow and develop inside the snails. (references) | ||
Infection occurs when your skin comes in contact with contaminated fresh water in which certain types of snails that carry schistosomes are living. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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| "SNAILS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.67% of the time. "SNAILS" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90.67% | 175 | 23,506 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.22% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "SNAILS": American land snails ♦ freshwater snails ♦ land snails. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SNAILS": water-snails. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SNAILS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 蜗牛 (snail). (various references) | |
Danish | lungesnegle (land snails, stylommatophora), forgaeliesnegle (fore-gill snails). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorkieuwigen (fore-gill snails), landlongslakken (land snails, stylommatophora). (various references) | |
Finnish | syötävä etana (edible snails), viinitarhanetana (vineyard snails). (various references) | |
French | stylommatorphores (land snails), escargot petit gris (petits-gris snails), escargot des vignes (grapevine snail, large garden snail, vineyard snails), escargot de Pise (Pisa snails), escargot de la Grèce du Nord (Nothern Greece snails), escargot de Bourgogne (vineyard snails), escargot comestible (edible snails), Camaenidae (American land snails). (various references) | |
German | Schnecken (escargots, helical). (various references) | |
Greek | σαλιγκάρια(εδώδιμα) (edible snails), σαλιγκάρια Κρήτης ή ελοποννήσου (petits-gris snails), σαλιγκάρια της αμπέλου (vineyard snails), σαλιγκάρια του δάσους (Nothern Greece snails), σαλιγκάρια 'ορείου Ελλάδας (Nothern Greece snails), σαλιγκάρια 'ουργονδίας (vineyard snails), σαλιγκάρια ίζας (Pisa snails), στυλομματοφόρα (land snails, stylommatophora), προσωβράγχια (fore-gill snails), υδροβιΐδες (freshwater snails), φαιά σαλιγκάρια (petits-gris snails), εμπροσθοβράγχια (fore-gill snails). (various references) | |
Italian | stilommatofori (land snails, stylommatophora), prosobranchi (fore-gill snails), idrobidi (freshwater snails), camenidi (American land snails). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ばい貝 (small water snails, whelk). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばいがい (small water snails, whelk). (various references) | |
Korean | 달팽이 (snail). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailssnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caracóis. (various references) | |
Spanish | caracoles (escargots). (various references) | |
Welsh | malwenna (gather snails). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Camaenidae, Hydrobiidae, Pleurodontidae, Prosobranchia, Stylommatophora. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"SNAILS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nsais, sais, sanhailt, sanil, Sansisu, senils, Shailes, shauls, Sialis, snaily, snuil, spails, stails, Swailes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SNAILS" (pronounced snā"lz) |
| 4 | -n ā" l z | nails. |
| 3 | -ā" l z | ails, ales, assails, bails, bales, Brailles, curtails, dales, derails, details, entails, fails, gales, hails, Hales, jails, mails, males, pails, pales, prevails, quails, rails, rales, sails, sales, scales, shales, swails, Swales, tails, tales, trails, travails, unveils, vales, veils, wails, Wales, whales. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: anils, nails, sails, sains, sasin, sials, sisal, slain, snail. | |
-2 letters: ails, ains, anil, anis, lain, lass, lins, nail, nils, sail, sain, sals, sans, sial, sins. | |
-3 letters: ail, ain, ais, als, ani, ass, ins, las, lin, lis, nil, sal, sin, sis. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, an, as, in, is, la, li, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: instals, islands, lashins, salinas, salines, signals, silanes, silvans, spinals. | |
+2 letters: ainsells, analysis, anisoles, classing, elastins, gainless, glassine, glassing, glossina, hassling, inclasps, installs, insulars, inulases, laciness, lashings, lassoing, lastings, laziness, leasings, lesbians, liaisons, linsangs, malisons, misplans, nailsets, nasalise, painless, plasmins, rainless, rassling, sailings, salicins, salients, salpians, saltines, saltings, sanicles, saplings, sealskin, sensilla, slashing, slatings, slayings, solanins, spaniels, stunsail, sundials, windlass. | |
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