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snail
snail name commonly used for a gastropod mollusk with a shell. Included in the thousands of species are terrestrial, freshwater, and marine forms. Some eat both plant and animal matter; others eat only one type of food. Respiration is carried on by gills in the aquatic species; terrestrial forms ... Read more
fluke
fluke parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm . Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that resists digestion by the host. In mo... Read more
gastropod
gastropod member of the class Gastropoda, the largest and most successful class of mollusks (phylum Mollusca ), containing over 35,000 living species and 15,000 fossil forms. The shell of gastropods is of one piece (called univalve) and usually coiled or spiraled as in snails , periwinkles , co... Read more
kite
kite in zoology, common name for a bird of the family Accipitridae, which also includes the hawk . Kites are found near water and marshes in warm parts of the world. They prey chiefly on reptiles, frogs, and insects. The swallow-tailed, white-tailed, and Mississippi kites are found in the Gulf sta... Read more
slug
slug name for a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in which the characteristic molluscan shell is reduced to a thin plate embedded in the tissues. Like the terrestrial snails of the same order, slugs have a distinct head with a mouth, tentacles bearing eyes, and a lung for breathing air. They move on ... Read more
schistosomiasis
schistosomiasis , bilharziasis, or snail fever, parasitic disease caused by blood flukes, trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma. Three species are human parasites: S. mansoni, S. japonicum, and S. haematobium. The disease is prevalent in Asia, some Pacific islands, Africa, the Wes... Read more
backswimmer
backswimmer common name for water bugs of the cosmopolitan family Notonectidae, so named because they swim upside down, usually near the surface of the water. They have oval bodies and long, oarlike hind legs, with which they swim rapidly, but their backs are more convex than those of the water b... Read more
whelk
whelk large marine gastropod snail found in temperate waters. The whelk is sometimes eaten, but when food is plentiful, fishermen frequently use it for bait. Whelks are scavengers and carnivores, equipped with an extensible proboscis, tipped with a filelike radula, with which they bore holes thro... Read more
firefly
firefly or lightning bug, small, luminescent, carnivorous beetle of the family Lampyridae. Fireflies are well represented in temperate regions, although the majority of species are tropical and subtropical. They are nocturnal in their behavior, and males commonly fly about in the evening duri... Read more
duiker
duiker , name for members of a group of small, light antelopes , found in thick brush and forest over most of Africa. All stand under 25 in. (64 cm) high at the shoulder. They have arched backs, pointed faces, and short, sharp, straight horns; in most species the horns are present in both sexes. So... Read more

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Snails
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...smaller whorls. In a peculiar snail called Vermicularia , the turns...The coiling of the shells of snails may be right-handed or left...right-handed. If one holds a snail shell with the central axis...aperture is on the left. Many snails have a partly mineralized...
snail
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...on stalks or tentacles. Many snails, including all land snails, are hermaphroditic, but the...species have separate sexes. A snail secretes a slimy path over which...foot. Marine and terrestrial snails are eaten in various parts of...
snail darter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition snail darter a small, rare fish, Percina tanasi, discovered by a zoologist who...but Congress declared the fish nonendangered and the Tellico was built. Snail darters are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class...
snail fever
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition snail fever see schistosomiasis .
Schistosomiasis
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...to adulthood, and both snails and humans play important...uh-sis) or “ snail fever. ” The...the right type of aquatic snails live in that water, the larva will find and enter a snail. There it passes through...
Mollusks
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...Among the more familiar mollusks are snails, whelks, conchs, clams, mussels...the class Gastropoda, which includes snails with a coiled shell, and others lacking...freshwater. Several groups of freshwater snails then produced species adapted to life...
molluscs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...invertebrate animals that includes snails, bivalves, and squid . Some...the flat process on which snails crawl) is developed into...seabed the molluscs are either snail-like or have two shells (bivalves). The snails (Gastropoda) crawl over...
fluke
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...requires two intermediate hosts, snails and fish. The eggs pass out...deposited in water and eaten by snails. The larvae invade the soft tissues of the snail from the digestive tract where...asexually; they emerge from the snail as free-swimming larvae...
Slugs
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...name for a group of terrestrial snails like molluscs with little or...that lack the gills of most snails, but generally have a “...slugs are also shell-less snails, but they are much more colorful...Nudibranchia. The nudibranchs have a snail-like body, with tentacles...
Southern French Cuisines
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...frequently associated with the Charentes is the snail, so much so that people here are called les cagouilles (snails). They like their snails — not the large Burgundian snail but the smaller, southwestern petit gris...

Dictionary entries related to "Snails"

snail
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition snail The small snail eaten in Europe is Helix pomatia ; the giant African snail (which weighs several hundred grams) is Achatima fulica .
snail mail
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet snail mail A derogatory term used to describe the conventional, paper-based mail system. See also SNAIL MAIL , PMAIL , and DEAD TREE .
Snail
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Snail Military , a D-shaped formation, 1579.
sea snail
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology sea snail See CYCLOPTERIDAE .
Buonanni, Filippo
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...naturalist Martin Lister that “ snails are generated by coition, which we observed...indeed, provided drawings of the eggs of snails, some of which visibly contained minuscule snails. Redi, because of Buonanni ’ s...
Bacon, Francis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events as the snail leaves its slime.’ Characteristically his paintings show single figures...
schistosomiasis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...The trematode requires two hosts; the first is an aquatic snail in which larvae emerging from eggs hatched in water develop...finally to fork-tailed forms (cercariae) which escape from the snail, swim freely in the water, and attach themselves to and penetrate...
conkers
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology conkers children's game played orig. with snail-shells, later with chestnuts on a string. XIX. f. dial. conker snail-shell, presumably f. CONCH .
Escargatoire
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Escargatoire a nursery for snails, 1705, hence, a large number of snails.
Woolrich, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Songs , sop. (1984); Serbian Songs , sop. (1984); The Turkish Mouse , sop. (1988), v., pf. (1990); Poor Mr Snail , sop. (1992).CHAMBER MUSIC: Quick Steps , wind octet (1990); Contredanse , str. octet (1991); The Death of King...

Thesaurus entries related to "Snails"

mollusk
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...zebra mussel Gastropods abalone conch cowrie haliotis limpet murex nudibranch periwinkle ram's-horn-snail sea slug sea snail slug snail volute whelk winkle Cephalopods cuttlefish nautilus octopus squid See also table at crustacean.
slowly
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...1. Tom walked off slowly synonyms : at a slow pace, without hurrying, unhurriedly, steadily, at a leisurely pace, at a snail's pace; Music adagio, lento, largo. antonym: quickly.   2. her health is improving slowly synonyms : gradually...
dawdle
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...dilly-dally, lollygag; archaic tarry. See note at loiter. antonym: hurry.   2. Ruth dawdled home synonyms : amble, stroll, trail, walk slowly, move at a snail's pace; informal mosey, toodle. antonyms: hurry, speed.
hinder
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...say that the weather has hindered you. But if you're trying to drive through a snowstorm and are forced to creep along at a snail's pace behind a snowplow, it would be correct to say you were impeded . To hinder is to delay or hold something back, especially...
mail
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...correspondence; postal system, postal service, post office; delivery, collection; e-mail; chiefly Brit. post; informal snail mail. • verb  we mailed the card synonyms : send, dispatch, post, direct, forward, redirect, ship...
drag
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...tug, yank, trail, tow, lug.   2. time dragged synonyms : go/move slowly, creep/limp along, crawl, go at a snail's pace.   3. the movie dragged | his lecture dragged (on) synonyms : go on too long, go on and on, become tedious...
laggard
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English laggard • noun   synonyms : loiterer, lingerer, dawdler, straggler, sluggard, snail, delayer, idler, slowpoke, loafer, lounger; inf. lazybones.
meat
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...muscovy duck musk ox muskrat mutton ostrich partridge pheasant pigeon pork poultry poussin pullet rabbit raccoon rattlesnake snail squab squirrel turkey turtle veal venison wild boar wild turkey wood pigeon yak Cuts of Meat American leg arm roast arm steak...
slow
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...unhurried, leisurely, measured, deliberate, ponderous, creeping, dawdling, loitering, lagging, laggard, sluggish, snail-like, tortoiselike.   2. he was incorrectly labeled as slow synonyms : backward, retarded, slow-witted, dull...
dilatory
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English dilatory • adjective   synonyms : slow, tardy, sluggish, snail-like, lazy, slack, indolent, delaying, dallying, dilly-dallying, loitering, lingering, dawdling, tarrying, procrastinating...

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SNAIL PROJECT DELIVERS FAST-FOOD RELIEF TO ENDANGERED SNAIL KITE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/20/2007; 700+ words ; ...them in the wild. The snails are the primary food...Florida's endangered snail kite. The District...designed to pull the snails from their shells. A snail kite eats an average of 2.5 apple snails an hour when feeding...
Marine snails.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 9/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...are the deadliest snails in the world. The cone snail can't swim and...YOU KNOW?? Land snails are hermaphrodites. That means each snail is both a male and...pond and marine snails and will be able to group snail and clam shells based...
SNAIL RANCH FOR ALBANY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/26/1987; 700+ words ; ...pressure is on for more snails. But the bad news is there's trouble in snail paradise. The French snails you get these days...another story. But in the snail farm, they are partners...who has experience with snails going back to his native...
SNAILS CRAWL BACK FROM EDGE; POPULATION OF STATE'S MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES GROWS AT CHITTENANGO FALLS.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 10/13/2002; 700+ words ; ...said the Chittenango snails appeared to be in...caused by an invading snail from Europe. The...efforts to breed the snail in captivity. In...colony of 30 adult snails and their offspring...could raise up to 500 snails that would eventually...only one captive snail survives. It is...
Garden snails as escargots. (recipes)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 5/1/1988; 700+ words ; ...petit-gris. Stalking the snail Snails are strictly nocturnal. By...daily and discard any dead snails. Scratch the snail's foot to check; if it doesn't twitch, the snail is dead. The snails' systems will be clear in...
A SNAIL'S LIFE IN THE FAST LANE LOOKING UPSTREAM FOR NEW CANCER METASTASIS INSIGHTS.
Magazine article from: BIOWORLD Today; 11/2/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Biology under the title "Dual regulation of Snail by GSK-3b -mediated phosphorylation in control...cadherin, in turn, is suppressed by the protein "snail." However, more detailed study of snail had been difficult, since snail is quite the...
Snails Pace the Path to Profit; Escargot Ranchers Riding Herd to Yuppie Market
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/5/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...cold weather slows down snail production, the company...going in greenhouses. Snails are hermaphroditic...something chewy," he said. Snails have "a fine flavor...States, he said. As a snail grower, he feels "a...it." The market for snails may prove to be less...
Snail expert keeps eye on potential threats to U.S. ecology.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 3/18/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...collection. He finds land snails fascinating. ``Many...most people just see a snail in the garden. I see...sometimes problems. Certain snails, like thousands of other...Somalia, I began getting snails that were on armored...odd life-cycle of a snail, and the animal's...
Snail mail delivers a very sticky problem; Unreadable: Slime wipes out addresses.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/27/2008; 700+ words ; ...bid farewell to their snail mail. reporter@dailymail...ie FACTFILE ? Garden snails have 14,175 teeth on their tongue. ? Snail slime is an excellent...The Australian Cone Snail can kill a human in four minutes. ? A snails slime is so thick it...
FOREIGN SNAIL THREATENS OYSTER BEDS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/25/1999; 700+ words ; ...atop the sea bed. The snails are about the size of...conch-like shell. The snail itself is about the size...Chesapeake near Maryland. The snail has few natural predators...probably eat the smaller snails, too. And some bottom...striped bass may eat snail eggs. But the many large...