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freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

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.

Marine, freshwater, or terrestrial mollusks of the class Gastropoda. Most have an enclosing spiral shell, and several genera harbor parasites pathogenic to man.

A slimy, slow-creeping little animal of the shellfish family, having a spiral shell; hence, any slow-moving person.

A slimy creeping mollusc, with or without a shell.

A shell-bearing mollusk.

A slow moving mollusk with a spiral shell.

A slow or lazy person.

Limax-s. Shell, Cochlea.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A slimy, slow-creeping, testaceous mollusc, furnished with four horns or tentacula on the head, which are retractile, and can be inverted or drawn into the interior of the body, and having its eyes in the extremities of the upper pair of horns ;-a similar mollusc without the shell ; a slug ;-hence, a drone ; a sluggard ; a lazy, slow-moving person.