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snail

snail [ snayl ] (plural snails)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. crawling organism with shell: a small organism with a coiled shell and a retractable muscular foot on which it crawls. Class Gastropoda.

2. slow-moving person or thing: somebody or something that moves very slowly ( informal )

[ Old English snægel< Germanic, "to crawl"]
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