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PRONUNCIATION OF SEA SNAIL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEA SNAIL

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Sea snail is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEA SNAIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for snails that normally live in saltwater, in other words marine gastropod molluscs. The taxonomic class Gastropoda also includes snails that live in other habitats, such as land snails and freshwater snails. Many species of sea snails are edible and exploited as food sources by humans. Sea snails are marine gastropods with shells. Those marine gastropods with no shells, or only internal shells, are variously known by other common names, including sea slug, sea hare, nudibranch, etc. The diversity within sea snails is enormous. Many very different clades of gastropods are either dominated by, or consist exclusively of, sea snails. Because of this great variability, generalization about the feeding, reproduction, habitat, or other traits of sea snails is not possible. Instead, individual clades, families, genera, or species must be assessed.

Definition of sea snail in the English dictionary

The definition of sea snail in the dictionary is any small spiny-finned fish of the family Liparidae, esp Liparis liparis, of cold seas, having a soft scaleless tadpole-shaped body with the pelvic fins fused into a sucker Also called: snailfish.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEA SNAIL

sea room
sea route
sea rover
sea salt
sea scorpion
Sea Scout
sea serpent
sea shanty
sea slater
sea slug
sea snake
sea spider
sea squill
sea squirt
sea steps
sea swallow
sea tangle
sea transport
sea trout
sea turtle

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEA SNAIL

as dead as a doornail
coffin nail
dead as a doornail
dew snail
doornail
edible snail
fingernail
garden snail
hangnail
hobnail
nail
on the nail
pond snail
ramshorn snail
Roman snail
snail
thumbnail
toenail
tooth and nail
unnail

Synonyms and antonyms of sea snail in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sea snail» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEA SNAIL

Find out the translation of sea snail to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sea snail from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sea snail» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海蜗牛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

caracol de mar
570 millions of speakers

English

sea snail
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्र घोंघा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حلزون البحر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морские улитки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caracol do mar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামুদ্রিক শামুক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

escargot de mer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Siput laut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Meeresschnecke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

海のカタツムリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바다 달팽이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Siput laut
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ốc biển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் நத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समुद्र गोगलगाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Deniz salyangozu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lumaca di mare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ślimak morski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

морські равлики
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

melc de mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θαλάσσιο σαλιγκάρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

seeslak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

havet snigel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sea ​​snegl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sea snail

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA SNAIL»

The term «sea snail» is regularly used and occupies the 71.887 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEA SNAIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sea snail

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEA SNAIL»

Discover the use of sea snail in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sea snail and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale ...
11.4.2.4 Recent Developments in Terme Sea Snail Fishing Fishers in Terme report that, since approximately 2005, sea snail fishing has started to loose some of its attraction and profitability. Most importantly, there are indications of average  ...
Svein Jentoft, Arne H. Eide, 2011
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Spectacles and Other Vision Aids: A History and Guide to ...
Sea snail. R013 Black lip pearl and sea snail alternating stripes inside and outside barrels: Geivroc & Colmont, Paris. GENROZ & COLMONT #20 IDA Paris C256 White mother-of-pearl, brass frame: caps — Ida Paris: underside of center bar ...
J. William Rosenthal, 1996
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The sea and its wonders: A companion volume to "The world at ...
THE SEA-SNAIL. I TOLD you, there was a mollusc which creeps like a snail. It has a flat foot, or disc, on which it moves slowly along, for it cannot dart about as the cuttle-fish does. It is a degree below the cuttle-fish in rank. In fact, it is a humble ...
Mrs. Mary (Kirby) Gregg, Elizabeth Kirby, 1871
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The Sushi Book
Sea slug entrails - Konowata - Fermented sea slug entrails, one of Japan's three most prized delicacies. Sea snail - Bai - A small sea snail, or whelk, used for making vinegared sunomono appetizers. Sea snail - Sazae - A sea snail, also called ...
Celeste Heiter, 2007
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Rifleman - sea slug
The sea butterfly Clione is a sea snail that has lost its shell and taken to a pelagic (free-swimming, oceanic) life. The winglike projections, or swimming lobes, that propel the animal can be clearly seen. The naked beauty of the sea butterfly ...
‎2002
6
The sea and its wonders, by M. and E. Kirby
THE SEA-SNAIL. I TOLD you, there was a mollusc which creeps like a snail. It has a flat foot, or disc, on which it moves slowly along, for it cannot dart about as the cuttle-fish does. It is a degree below the cuttle-fish in rank. In fact, it is a humble ...
Mary Kirby, 1871
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A history of the earth, and animated nature
... that gardeners imagine they burst from the earth; wet seasons favourable to their production; sea snail, fresh-water snail, and land snail; common garden- snail compared with the fresh-water snail, and sea snail; fresh-water snails viviparous; ...
Oliver Goldsmith, 1824
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Swimming in the Sea of Talmud: Lessons for Everyday Living
"HiUazon in rabbinical literature is a land or sea snail (Sanhedrin 91a), Among the latter there are species in whose bodies is a gland containing a clear liquid, which when it comes into contact with the air becomes greenish; this is tekhelet ...
Michael Katz, Gershon Schwartz, 1998
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Aquatic Life of the World: Sea pen-Swordfish
SEE ALSO • Abalone • Conch • Cone shell • Invertebrate • Limpet • Mollusk • Sea slug u FACT FIL Mollusks Invertebrates with soft unseg- mented bodies;. △ At the surface of the ocean, a violet sea snail feeds on part of a Portuguese ...
‎2001
10
Animated nature
... to their production : sea snail, fresh-water snail, and land snail: common garden-snail compared with the fresh-water snail, and sea snail: fresh-water snails viviparous: bring forth young alive, with shells upon their backs: experiment made by ...
Oliver Goldsmith, 1825

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEA SNAIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sea snail is used in the context of the following news items.
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Killer sea snail a target for new drugs
University of Queensland pain treatment researchers have discovered thousands of new peptide toxins hidden deep within the venom of just one type of ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Miniature sea snails found in acidic sea near volcanic seeps
The researchers found that there was a 30 per cent drop in biodiversity near the vents, and two species of sea snail that do survive there are about 1.5 times ... «New Scientist, Apr 15»
3
Seaside snail most misidentified creature in the world
Littorina saxatilis or the rough periwinkle: for centuries scientists have been confused by the many colour and shape variations of this common sea snail. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
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Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world's strongest material
Yep, you read that right. The super-strong structure of limpet teeth -- a shelled sea mollusc about 5 cm in length -- is so formidable that it could one day be ... «CBC.ca, Feb 15»
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Deadly sea snail uses weaponised insulin to make its prey sluggish
The deadly geographic cone snail The geographic cone snail, Conus geographus, which releases a cocktail of toxins, including insulin, into the water to subdue ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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Prized sea snail not at risk of extinction, federal officials say
The National Marine Fisheries Services has decided not to grant federal protection to the pinto abalone, a prized six-inch sea snail whose population has ... «Los Angeles Times, Dec 14»
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This sea snail is so punk rock it was named after The Clash's Joe …
According to a new study published in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity, a group of researchers decided to name a spiky-looking sea snail after The ... «The Verge, Dec 14»
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Sea-snail perfume may help save coral reefs
Like all good villains, crown-of-thorns starfish have an archnemesis, the giant triton sea snail. Unfortunately, the snails are rare (having been hunted by people ... «CNET, Dec 14»
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Deemed punk rock, snail named after The Clash singer Joe Strummer
Scientists have named a new deep sea snail species A. strummeri, in honor of Joe Strummer, lead singer and guitarist of The Clash. (Shannon Johnson ... «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Dec 14»
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At Taste of Mexico, short rib tacos, sea snail ceviche and free …
The fourth-annual Taste of Mexico festival took place Saturday at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles. This year, the grand Mexican food event ... «Los Angeles Times, Sep 14»

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