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All snail synonyms

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adjective snail

  • dallying — Present participle of dally.
  • laggard — a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer.
  • loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.

noun snail

  • conch — A conch is a shellfish with a large shell rather like a snail's. A conch or a conch shell is the shell of this creature.
  • lobster — any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
  • crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
  • chiton — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a loose woollen tunic worn knee length by men and full length by women
  • crayfish — A crayfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crayfish.
  • limpet — any of various marine gastropods with a low conical shell open beneath, often browsing on rocks at the shoreline and adhering when disturbed.
  • mollusk — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
  • whelk — a pimple or pustule.
  • mussel — any bivalve mollusk, especially an edible marine bivalve of the family Mytilidae and a freshwater clam of the family Unionidae.
  • faineant — Also, faineant [fey-nee-uh nt] /ˈfeɪ ni ənt/ (Show IPA). idle; indolent.
  • dawdler — to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!
  • cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
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