snail

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I - noun

1. freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
gastropod, univalve
• Hyponyms:
scorpion shell, edible snail, Helix pomatia, garden snail
2. edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
• Syn:
escargot
• Hypernyms:
meat
• Substance Holonyms:
edible snail, Helix pomatia

II - verb

gather snails
- We went snailing in the summer
• Hypernyms:
gather, garner, collect, pull together
• Hyponyms:
whelk
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and snail