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snail

/sneɪl/noun, verb1 syllable

Snail means: edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.

Synonyms for snail3

noun, as in edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

escargot

also used for snail

dodman, hodmandod

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What does snail mean?3

noun

1

edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

2

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

verb

1

gather snails“We went snailing in the summer”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with snail?42

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All 42 rhymes for snail, grouped by syllable

Snail in a sentence

  • With perseverance, even the snails boarded the ark.lys1123
  • Slugs are like snails, but without the shell.arh
  • Slugs, like snails, are hermaphroditic mollusks, who thus have both ovaries and testes.Miktsoanit
  • The taxi seemed to go as slowly as a snail.timmartin
  • A snail can sleep for as long as three years at a time.CK
  • How can the little snail grow inside its stone prison?FiRez
  • Do you want a snail in your eye?unknown
  • I am a snail and snails are never in a hurry.Hybrid

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Forms of snail

as a noun

plural
snails

as a verb

third-person singular
snails
present participle
snailing
past participle
snailed
past tense
snailed