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snail
snail is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
- 2noun
Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
- 3noun
Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
- 4noun
A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- 5noun
A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
- 6noun
The pod of the sanil clover.
- 7noun
freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- 8noun
edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
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- 9verb
gather snails
"We went snailing in the summer"
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