Definition of Snail

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Snail

Snail

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.

Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

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.

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.

The pod of the sanil clover.

Related Definitions:

Abundant, All, Allied, Almost, Ancient, And, Another, Any, Arctic, Are, As, Belonging, Cam, Changing, Clock, Clover, Curved, Drone, Entirely, Except, Family, Feed, Flat, For, Fresh-Water, Gastropod, Genera, General, Genus, Giving, Hammer, Having, Helix, Hence, In, Including, Land, Many, Marine, Metal, Motion, Movable, Nearly, Numerous, Of, On, One, Or, Outline, Part, Person, Piece, Pod, Pond, Position, Protect, Resemblance, Roof, Sea, See, Shed, Snail, Species, Spiral, Spirally, Striking, Tail, Terrestrial, Testudo, The, They, Thing, To, Tortoise, True, Under, Used, Vegetation, Warfare, World

Snail Quotations

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Spurgeon

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
Wole Soyinka

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev

I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.
Steve Burns

Snail Translations

snail in Danish is snegl
snail in Dutch is slak, huisjesslak
snail in German is Schnecke
snail in Hungarian is csiga
snail in Italian is chiocciola
snail in Portuguese is caracol
snail in Spanish is caracol

Quotes