abalone

en-noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”)

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(Canada, US, Australia) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.


purple

From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.

der

Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.

snakebite and black
snakebite and black#English

(UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.


purple

en-adj

purple (comparative purpler or more purple, superlative purplest or most purple)

purpler (comparative)
more purple (comparative)
purplest (superlative)
most purple (superlative)

nonpurple

antonym(s) of “having purple as its colour”

A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write too quickly to notice that patches of her writing are unbearably purple.

1979 August 4, Rob Schmieder, “Anything a Man Does”, in Gay Community News, page 15:

(of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.


purple

en-verb

purple (third-person singular simple present purples, present participle purpling, simple past and past participle purpled)

purples (present singular third-person)
purpling (participle present)
purpled (participle past)
purpled (past)

[T]he Capri cliffs, the tops of which were still pink against the purpling sky.

1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 143:

The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.

1999, David Edelstein, In Nomine: Corporeal Player's Guide, Steve Jackson Games,, →ISBN, page 8:

(intransitive) To turn purple in colour.


conch

From Latin concha, from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē). Doublet of concha.

A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.


olive

From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)). Doublet of oliva. Displaced native Old English eleberġe, literally "oil berry."

Olea europaea
Olea europaea#Translingual

A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.

(neuroanatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.

a beef olive

olives of veal

(cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.

Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.

(UK, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.


slug

Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

inh

Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.

2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

(web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.


loco

(Chile) Chilean edible gastropod mollusk that resembles abalone but is, in fact, a muricid (Concholepas concholepas)


snail

From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sneġel, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,
Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

акамыршша

any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell

ꓠꓸ ꓑꓼ ꓟꓺ

nɑ́ pɑ̱̀ mɑ̱

(engineering) 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.

(rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.


mask shell

Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona (now Distorsio), having a curiously twisted aperture.


Kugelschnecke

de-noun

Kugelschnecke f (genitive Kugelschnecke, plural Kugelschnecken)

Kugelschnecke (genitive)
Kugelschnecken (plural)
Kugelschnecke (nominative singular)
Kugelschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Kugelschnecke (genitive singular)
Kugelschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Kugelschnecke (dative singular)
Kugelschnecken (dative definite plural)
Kugelschnecke (accusative singular)
Kugelschnecken (accusative definite plural)

/ˈkuːɡəlˌʃnɛkə/


蜷

certain snails; elongate snail, spiral-shelled snail


蝸

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 螺 (OC *roːl, “aquatic snail”).
Perhaps related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *kloʔ (“snail, shellfish”) (Schuessler, 2007).


螺

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *roːl): semantic 虫 + phonetic 累 (OC *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kroj (“shellfish, shell”). From the same root derives 蝸 (OC *kroːl, *kʷroːl, “terrestrial snail”).

och-l

(transgender slang) Short for 螺內酯／螺内酯 (luónèizhǐ, “spironolactone”); spiro

(historical) wine cup made from a snail shell

(historical) ink; pigment (green-black in color, produced from the snail, and used by women for drawing eyebrows)

Short for 螺髻 (“hair done up in a coil shape”).


螺

From Old Japanese. Cognate with 粒 (tsubu, “grain; granule, little roundish bit of something”). May have originally been the combining form; compare 神 (kamu, bound form, only used in compounds) and 神 (kami, standalone form).

Synonym of 田螺 (tanishi, “river snails of family Viviparidae”)


貝

貝 (canonical)
kai (romanization)
kafi (romanization)
かひ (hiragana historical)

Kojiki Man'yōshū Mollusca Shellfish ja:貝

⟨kapi₁⟩ → */kapʲi/ → /kaɸi/ → /kawi/ → /kai/
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kapi. Appears voiced in the Kojiki of 712 CE in a compound, with the phonetic man'yōgana spelling 賀比, and in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

an aquatic shellfish (generally limited to mollusks with calcareous shells such as clams or snails, and excluding crustaceans such as shrimp or crabs)


glyph

First attested in 1727. Borrowed from French glyphe, from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”), from γλύφω (glúphō, “I carve, engrave”).

глиф

carved relief representing a sound, word or idea


Achatina

→ English: achatina

→ Russian: ахати́на (axatína)

From New Latin, from Latin achatinus (“agate-like”).

A taxonomic genus within the family Achatinidae – land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.

for others see Achatina at World Register of Marine Species


Nacktschnecke

de-noun

Nacktschnecke f (genitive Nacktschnecke, plural Nacktschnecken)

Nacktschnecke (genitive)
Nacktschnecken (plural)
Nacktschnecke (nominative singular)
Nacktschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Nacktschnecke (genitive singular)
Nacktschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Nacktschnecke (dative singular)
Nacktschnecken (dative definite plural)
Nacktschnecke (accusative singular)
Nacktschnecken (accusative definite plural)

From nackt (“naked”) + Schnecke (“snail”).


rhombus

Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.

romb

A parallelogram having all sides of equal length

(zoology, archaic) Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.


papa

name of the Baybayin letter ᜉ (pa), corresponding to "pa"


globe

From late Middle English globe, from Middle French globe, from Old French globe, borrowed from Latin globus. Doublet of globus.

Him round / A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed.

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.


chiocciola

From a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *clociola, diminutive of *clocea, from metathesis of Latin cochlea (“snail”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías), cognate with κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish”).

(typography, computing) the “@” symbol, commercial at, at sign


murex

The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.

1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:

The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.

1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:

Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.


murex

la-noun

mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension

mūrex (canonical masculine)
mūricis (genitive)
mūrex (nominative singular)
mūricēs (nominative plural)
mūricis (genitive singular)
mūricum (genitive plural)
mūricī (dative singular)
mūricibus (dative plural)
mūricem (accusative singular)
mūricēs (accusative plural)
mūrice (ablative singular)
mūricibus (ablative plural)
mūrex (singular vocative)
mūricēs (plural vocative)

English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid

Irish: maorach

Catalan: múrex

Italian: murice

Portuguese: múrice

Spanish: múrice

Translingual: Murex

Uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of mūs (“mouse”), whence mūsculus (“a saltwater mussel”). Alternatively, together with Ancient Greek μύαξ (múax, “sea mussel”) borrowed from a Mediterranean substrate language.

A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.


Scotch bonnet

Of the pepper, mushroom, and snail, from the resemblance to the Scottish tam o'shanter.

Capsicum chinense
Capsicum chinense#Translingual

A variety of hot chilli pepper (a cultivar of Capsicum chinense).


limpet

From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lambō (“I lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French.

A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.


tun

From Middle English tunne, tonne (“cask, barrel”), from Old English tunne (“tun, cask, barrel”), from Proto-Germanic *tunnǭ, *tunnō (“tun, barrel, cask”), from Latin tunna, probably of Gaulish origin.
Cognate with North Frisian tenn (“tun, barrel, cask”), Dutch ton (“tun, barrel, cask”), German Tonne (“tun, barrel, drum”), Danish tønde (“barrel”), Swedish tunna (“barrel, cask, tun”), Icelandic tunna (“barrel”). Compare also Old French tonne, French tonneau (“ton, barrel”), Medieval Latin tunna (“cask”), Middle Irish tunna (“cask”), Welsh tynell (“tun, barrel”). It is uncertain whether the Germanic or the Celtic forms are the original.

cog

Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.


cowry

They tie [...] a string of cowry beads around their neck.

2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 261:


winkle

There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).

1912, Daniel Melancthon Tredwell, Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island:

The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour.

1931, Bureau of Fisheries Document, volume 922, page 217:

In Connecticut, the so-called "winkle" chowder is made from B. [Busycon] canaliculatum.

1969, Frank E. Firth, The encyclopedia of marine resources, page 139:

Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.


whelk

From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.

der

Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

峨螺

edible sea snail of the family Buccinidae


periwinkle

Diminutive of Middle English perwinke, from Old English perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca), of unknown origin.

/ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/

The Periwinkle is a great binder, staying bleeding both at mouth and nose if some of the leaves be chewed.

1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC:

He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.

1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 137:

Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.


periwinkle

From Middle English [Term?], alteration of *pinewinkle (compare English dialectal pennywinkle), from Old English pīnewincle, compound of Latin pīna (“kind of mussel”), itself from Ancient Greek πίνη (pínē), variant of πίννα (pínna, “mussel”)) and Old English wincel (“corner”) (compare dialectal Danish vinkel (“snail shell”)). More at winch and wink.

/ˈpɛɹ.ɪˌwɪŋ.kəl/

He was working a pin into a periwinkle shell, turning it to extract the toothsome morsel of meat.

2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 217:


vertigo

en-noun

vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)

A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.


spindle

From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin + -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).

gloss

(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.

spindel

computing: a plastic container for packaging optical discs

One of the fascinating characteristics of sleep spindles is that they are generated by the thalamic reticular nucleus, and do not occur in the presence of NE. In fact, LC neurons fall silent in the second preceding each spindle […]

2010, Human Sleep and Cognition: Basic Research, page 10:


elm

From Latin helmus, elmus. First attested in the 13th century.

Semicassis saburon (helmet snail found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic)


turban

tùrbān (canonical masculine)
ту̀рба̄н (Cyrillic)
tùrbān (nominative singular)
turbani (nominative plural)
turbána (genitive singular)
turbana (genitive plural)
turbanu (dative singular)
turbanima (dative plural)
turbana (accusative singular)
turbane (accusative plural)
turbane (singular vocative)
turbani (plural vocative)
turbanu (locative singular)
turbanima (locative plural)
turbanom (instrumental singular)
turbanima (instrumental plural)


escargot

en-noun

escargot (countable and uncountable, plural escargots)

/ˌɛskɑɹˈɡoʊ/

J. is dating P. at NYU and modeling on the side. They're planning to meet us in Paris for spring break so J. can go to some look-sees (and eat some escargot, obv.).

2007, Melissa de la Cruz, Crazy Hot, page 270:

(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.


escargot

From Occitan escargol, alteration of caragol, metathesis of cagaròl, possibly from a cross between Latin conchylium and Ancient Greek κάχλαξ (kákhlax), but see cagaròl. Doublet of cagouille.

Coordinate term: limace


Schnecke

de-noun

Schnecke f (genitive Schnecke, plural Schnecken, diminutive Schneckchen n or Schnecklein n)

Schnecke (genitive)
Schnecken (plural)
Schneckchen (diminutive neuter)
Schnecklein (diminutive neuter)
Schnecke (nominative singular)
Schnecken (definite nominative plural)
Schnecke (genitive singular)
Schnecken (definite genitive plural)
Schnecke (dative singular)
Schnecken (dative definite plural)
Schnecke (accusative singular)
Schnecken (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: šnek

→ Kashubian: sznëka

→ Polish: sznek (Culmland) / → szneka (Greater Poland)

From Middle High German snëcke, from Old High German sneggo, snecco, from Proto-Germanic *sneggô.

(lutherie) scroll (the carved wooden spiral at the end of a stringed instrument's fingerboard)

Die beistehende Probe gibt das Facsimile eines Schildes der Familie Rordorf (eine gelbe Schnecke, beginnend oben rechts in rotem Feld) wieder. Die Umrisse und der Rahmen sind schwarz, die Striche an der Schnecke rot ausgeführt[…]

1897, Archives heraldiques suisses: Schweizer-Archiv für Heraldik. Archivio araldico svizzero, page 115:

1924 (RORDORF) Zürich h f K. 72 : 122. Stehender geharnischter Ritter mit Lanze, Schwert und erhobenem Wappenschild mit Schnecke. Visir geöffnet. Helmzierde mit fünf Pfauenfedern besteckt.

1898, Gerster, Die schweizerischen Bibliothekzeichen (Ex-Libris), page 156:

(heraldry, rare) a stylized charge consisting of a tapering spiral inward from the edge to the centre of the shield, somewhat resembling the spiral on a snail's shell or a gurges


cochlea

la-noun

cochlea f (genitive cochleae); first declension

cochleae (genitive)
cochlea (nominative singular)
cochleae (nominative plural)
cochleae (genitive singular)
cochleārum (genitive plural)
cochleae (dative singular)
cochleīs (dative plural)
cochleam (accusative singular)
cochleās (accusative plural)
cochleā (ablative singular)
cochleīs (ablative plural)
cochlea (singular vocative)
cochleae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: còclea

→ English: cochlea

→ Italian: coclea

→ Portuguese: cóclea

→ Spanish: cóclea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοχλῐ́ᾱς (kokhlíās, “snail with a spiral shell”).

bor

Archimedes' screw, water screw, screw pump (machine for drawing water by raising it)


gastropod

/ˈɡæstɹəˌpɑd/

From French gastéropode, from gastro- + -poda, New Latin, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).

der

Any member of a class of molluscs (Gastropoda) that includes snails and slugs; univalve mollusc.


triton

From trito- + -on. From tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”).

(physics) the nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons


triton

From Triton, who blows such a seashell like a trumpet.

Any of several marine gastropods of the family Ranellidae, which have a pointed spiral shell.


line conch

A spiral marine shell (Cinctura lilium), found in Florida and the Caribbean.


Apfelschnecke

de-noun

Apfelschnecke f (genitive Apfelschnecke, plural Apfelschnecken)

Apfelschnecke (genitive)
Apfelschnecken (plural)
Apfelschnecke (nominative singular)
Apfelschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Apfelschnecke (genitive singular)
Apfelschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Apfelschnecke (dative singular)
Apfelschnecken (dative definite plural)
Apfelschnecke (accusative singular)
Apfelschnecken (accusative definite plural)


white-lipped snail

en-noun

white-lipped snail (plural white-lipped snails)

A snail of species Cepaea hortensis, very similar to the grove snail, but with a white band at the lip of the shell.


Gehäuseschnecke

de-noun

Gehäuseschnecke f (genitive Gehäuseschnecke, plural Gehäuseschnecken)

Gehäuseschnecke (genitive)
Gehäuseschnecken (plural)
Gehäuseschnecke (nominative singular)
Gehäuseschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Gehäuseschnecke (genitive singular)
Gehäuseschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Gehäuseschnecke (dative singular)
Gehäuseschnecken (dative definite plural)
Gehäuseschnecke (accusative singular)
Gehäuseschnecken (accusative definite plural)


grove snail

A snail of species Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.


Weißmündige Bänderschnecke

Weißmündige Bänderschnecke f (definite nominative die Weißmündige Bänderschnecke, genitive Weißmündiger Bänderschnecke, definite genitive der Weißmündigen Bänderschnecke, plural Weißmündige Bänderschnecken, definite plural die Weißmündigen Bänderschnecken)

die Weißmündige Bänderschnecke (definite nominative)
Weißmündiger Bänderschnecke (genitive)
der Weißmündigen Bänderschnecke (definite genitive)
Weißmündige Bänderschnecken (plural)
die Weißmündigen Bänderschnecken (definite plural)


Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke

Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke f (definite nominative die Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke, genitive Schwarzmündiger Bänderschnecke, definite genitive der Schwarzmündigen Bänderschnecke, plural Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecken, definite plural die Schwarzmündigen Bänderschnecken)

die Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke (definite nominative)
Schwarzmündiger Bänderschnecke (genitive)
der Schwarzmündigen Bänderschnecke (definite genitive)
Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecken (plural)
die Schwarzmündigen Bänderschnecken (definite plural)


Achatschnecke

Achatschnecke f (genitive Achatschnecke, plural Achatschnecken)

Achatschnecke (genitive)
Achatschnecken (plural)
Achatschnecke (nominative singular)
Achatschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Achatschnecke (genitive singular)
Achatschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Achatschnecke (dative singular)
Achatschnecken (dative definite plural)
Achatschnecke (accusative singular)
Achatschnecken (accusative definite plural)


dog whelk

1971 January 14, Graham Chedd, Peter Stubbs, Gerald Wick (section editors), Monitor: Starving dog whelks grow teeth in the estuary, New Scientist, Volume 49, Number 734, page 57,
A recent study of shell-shape in the dog whelk Nucella lapillus along the Bristol Channel suggests - that in progressively less saline conditions the species lives in a colonising situation, where periodic food shortages, rather than physiological limitations, decimate populations and sometimes lead to local extinction.

Evidently the dog whelks perceive the chemicals released by the crabs and their prey.[…]Dog whelks are believed to have evolved in the Pacific, and to have spread into the North Atlantic in the Pliocene, during a warm period when it was possible to pass along the coast of the Arctic Ocean.

1996, Colin Little, John A. Kitching, The Biology of Rocky Shores, page 144:

The dog-whelk is carnivorous; acorn barnacles and the mussel Mytilus edulis (p. 254) are the main prey species.

2011, J. D. Fish, S. Fish, A Student's Guide to the Seashore, 3rd edition, page 231:

A carnivorous European mollusc, Nucella lapillus, found on rocky coasts.


turbo

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.


слизняк

ru-noun+

слизня́к • (sliznják) m anim (genitive слизняка́, nominative plural слизняки́, genitive plural слизняко́в)

слизня́к (canonical)
sliznják (romanization)
слизняка́ (genitive)
слизняки́ (nominative plural)
слизняко́в (genitive plural)
слизня́к (nominative singular)
слизняки́ (nominative plural)
слизняка́ (genitive singular)
слизняко́в (genitive plural)
слизняку́ (dative singular)
слизняка́м (dative plural)
слизняка́ (accusative singular)
слизняко́в (accusative plural)
слизняко́м (instrumental singular)
слизняка́ми (instrumental plural)
слизняке́ (prepositional singular)
слизняка́х (plural prepositional)

[s⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪzʲˈnʲak]

Ru-слизняк.ogg


달팽이

First attested in the Hyang'yakjipseongbang (鄕藥集成方 / 향약집성방), 1433 as Middle Korean 月乙板伊 (*tolphan.i). Further Middle Korean examples as Hangul include ᄃᆞᆯ판이 (tolphanGi), ᄃᆞᆯ파니 (tolphani) and ᄃᆞᆯ팡이 (tolphangi). Compare dialectal forms 달파니 (dalpani, Jeonnam/Pyeongan/Hwanghae), etc. and Jeju ᄃᆞᆯ뱅이 (dawlbaeng'i).

달팽이 껍질


tegula

Borrowed from Latin tegula (“a tile”), from tegō (“to cover”). Doublet of tile.

(malacology) Any sea snail in the genus Tegula.


paua

A large, edible abalone, Haliotis iris, native to New Zealand, whose shell is used to make jewelry.


perlemoen

Borrowed from Afrikaans perlemoen, from Dutch perlemoer (“mother-of-pearl”).


alikreukel

(South Africa) giant periwinkle, Turbo sarmaticus


puž

sh-noun

pȗž m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑ж, diminutive pùžić)

pȗž (canonical masculine)
пу̑ж (Cyrillic)
pùžić (diminutive)
pȗž (nominative singular)
púževi (nominative plural)
puža (genitive singular)
puževa (genitive plural)
pužu (dative singular)
puževima (dative plural)
puža (accusative singular)
puževe (accusative plural)
pužu (singular vocative)
puževi (plural vocative)
pužu (locative singular)
puževima (locative plural)
pužem (instrumental singular)
puževima (instrumental plural)


пуж

пу̑ж m (Latin spelling pȗž, diminutive пу̀жић)

пу̑ж (canonical masculine)
pȗž (romanization)
пу̀жић (diminutive)
пу̑ж (nominative singular)
пу́жеви (nominative plural)
пужа (genitive singular)
пужева (genitive plural)
пужу (dative singular)
пужевима (dative plural)
пуж (accusative singular)
пужеве (accusative plural)
пужу (singular vocative)
пужеви (plural vocative)
пужу (locative singular)
пужевима (locative plural)
пужем (instrumental singular)
пужевима (instrumental plural)


蛞蝓

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (蛞蝓):
* → Korean: 활유(蛞蝓) (hwaryu)

/kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ y³⁵/

/kʰuːt̚³ jyː²¹/

/kʰuat̚³²⁻⁴ zu²³/

/kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ y³⁵/

/kʰuːt̚³ jyː²¹/

/kʰuat̚³²⁻⁴ zu²³/


蛞蝓

ja-noun

蛞蝓(なめくじ) or 蛞蝓(ナメクジ) • (namekuji) ^(←なめくぢ (namekudi) or ナメクヂ (namekudi)?)

蛞蝓 (canonical)
蛞蝓 (canonical)
namekuji (romanization)
namekudi (romanization)
なめくぢ (hiragana historical)
ナメクヂ (hiragana historical)


蝸牛

/wɔ⁵⁵ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/wɔ⁵⁵ ni̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/

/ku̯ä⁵⁵ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/o⁵⁵ nʲəu²¹/

/wɔː⁵⁵ ŋɐu̯²¹/

/vɤ¹¹ niəu¹¹/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡu¹³/

/ɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡiu²³/

/o⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡiu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡiu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ŋiũ¹³/

/o³³⁻²³ ɡu⁵⁵/

/ku³³ n̠ʲiɤ⁴⁴/

/o³³ n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/

/wɔ⁵⁵ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/wɔ⁵⁵ ni̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/

/ku̯ä⁵⁵ ni̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/o⁵⁵ nʲəu²¹/

/wɔː⁵⁵ ŋɐu̯²¹/

/vɤ¹¹ niəu¹¹/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡu¹³/

/ɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡiu²³/

/o⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡiu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ɡiu²⁴/

/o⁴⁴⁻²² ŋiũ¹³/

/o³³⁻²³ ɡu⁵⁵/

/ku³³ n̠ʲiɤ⁴⁴/

/o³³ n̠ʲi̯əu̯¹³/


蝸牛

蝸牛 (canonical)
kagyū (romanization)
kwagiu (romanization)
くわぎう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese compound 蝸牛／蜗牛 (kwæ ngjuw, literally “snail + cow”).


蝸牛

蝸牛 (canonical)
蝸牛 (canonical)
katatsumuri (romanization)

Alteration of katatsuburi, in turn a compound of 堅 (kata, stem of adjective 固い (katai, “hard”)) + つぶり (tsuburi, “small round thing”, cognate with 頭 (tsuburi, “head”), 粒 (tsubu, “grain or kernel of rice”)).
The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓).

1999 March 18, “デビルツムリ [Devilsnail]”, in Starter Box(スターターボックス), Konami:

A snail that evolved with the help of dark power. It can move quickly now that it has limbs.

闇の力で進化したカタツムリ。手や足があり、速く動ける。

Yami no chikara de shinka shita katatsumuri. Te ya ashi ga ari, hayaku ugokeru.

2000 April 20, “メカニカルスネイル [Mechanical Snail]”, in Magic Ruler －魔法の支配者－, Konami:

A snail that was mechanically enhanced, which didn’t make it any quicker.

機械に改造されたカタツムリ。しかし、スピードはあまり変わらない。

Kikai ni kaizō sareta katatsumuri. Shikashi, supīdo wa amari kawaranai.


蝸牛

蝸牛 (canonical)
dendenmushi (romanization)

[dẽ̞ndẽ̞mːɯ̟ɕi]

Alteration of ででむし (dedemushi, “snail”), itself a compound of でで (dede, from 出 (de, “come out”), from an old children's nursery rhyme calling for a snail to put out its eyestalks) + 虫 (mushi, “bug”).

薄皮蝸牛

薄皮蝸牛 うすかわまいまい

一条蝸牛

一条蝸牛 ひとすじまいまい


polž

pōłž (animate canonical masculine)
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pôlž (nominative singular)
pôlža (dual nominative)
pôlži (nominative plural)
pôlža (genitive singular)
pôlžev (dual genitive)
pôlžev (genitive plural)
pôlžu (dative singular)
pôlžema (dative dual)
pôlžem (dative plural)
pôlža (accusative singular)
pôlža (accusative dual)
pôlže (accusative plural)
pôlžu (locative singular)
pôlžih (dual locative)
pôlžih (locative plural)
pôlžem (instrumental singular)
pôlžema (dual instrumental)
pôlži (instrumental plural)


black slug

An omnivorous slug found in Europe and the Pacific Northwest, Arion ater, not always black, despite the name.


cowrie

Mid-17th century, borrowed from Hindi कौड़ी (kauṛī).

turtle cowrie

Chelycypraea testudinaria, syn. Cypraea testudinaria

A small gastropod (Monetaria moneta, syn. Cypraea moneta) common in the Indian Ocean; its shell.

(by extension, dated) Any gastropod of the genus Cypraea; its shell.

(by extension) Any gastropod of the family Cypraeidae; its shell.


lapa

Obscure. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *lappa; less likely from Proto-Germanic *lappô: "rag", then "border", then, hypothetically, "shelter".

unk

Obscure


black abalone

A black-shelled edible mollusc (Haliotis crachedorii), found off the North American Pacific coast.


volute

From French volute, from Italian voluta, from Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō. Doublet of vault.

Common shells include frog-shells, distorsios, volutes, tulips, murex, cones, olives, marginellas, cowries, augers and the Florida horse conch, the state's official shell, which can grow up to 24in (6 1 cm) long.

2002, Don Philpott, Florida: Gulf Coast, page 16:

(zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.


nudibranch

Circa 19th century, from Latin nudus (“naked”) + branchia (“gills”).

A sea slug belonging to the order Nudibranchia.


caracol

→ Italian: caracollo

Uncertain. Possibly from a derivation of Vulgar Latin *cochleare, from Latin cochlea, from Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “spiral, snail shell”). See also cuchara. Alternatively, possibly of pre-Roman substrate origin.
Cognate with Portuguese caracol, Galician caracol, Asturian caracol, and Occitan caragol, from earlier cagarol.


Orthogastropoda

From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + Gastropoda.

A taxonomic subclass within the class Gastropoda – the true snails.


Heterobranchia

A taxonomic superorder within the subclass Orthogastropoda.

A taxonomic subclass within the class Gastropoda.


pulmonate

From New Latin pulmōnātus (“having lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ātus.


Gastropoda

gastro- + -poda, New Latin, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) and πούς (poús, “foot”)

A taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca – gastropods or univalves.


cono

Borrowed from Latin cōnus, from Ancient Greek κώνος (kṓnos).

es:Cono (botánica)
es:Cono (célula)
es:Cono (geometría)


cauri

Ultimately from Hindi कौड़ी (kauṛī, “cowry”), perhaps via English or French.


Ancylus

A taxonomic genus within the family Planorbidae – river limpets.


Ancylini

A taxonomic tribe within the family Planorbidae – river limpets, ramshorn snails and their allies.


Ancylinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Planorbidae – river limpets, formerly family Ancylidae.

Ancylus

(subfamily): Ancylini, Laevapicini - tribes


oyster drill

A sea snail, including Urosalpinx cinerea and others in subfamily Ocenebrinae, such as genera Urosalpinx, Eupleura, and Ocenebra), that feeds on oysters and other shellfish, using an eversible gland to soften its prey's shell so that it can make a hole in the shell using its radula and consume the flesh.


турбан

ту̀рба̄н (canonical masculine)
tùrbān (romanization)
ту̀рба̄н (nominative singular)
турбани (nominative plural)
турба́на (genitive singular)
турбана (genitive plural)
турбану (dative singular)
турбанима (dative plural)
турбана (accusative singular)
турбане (accusative plural)
турбане (singular vocative)
турбани (plural vocative)
турбану (locative singular)
турбанима (locative plural)
турбаном (instrumental singular)
турбанима (instrumental plural)

turban snail (family Turbinidae, esp. Bolma rugosa)


Caenogastropoda

Certain gastropods, including the cowry, whelk, and periwinkles


Neogastropoda

A taxonomic order within the class Gastropoda.

†Weeksiidae

extinct families not assigned to superfamilies

A taxonomic infraorder within the suborder Hypsogastropoda.


שבלול

he-noun

שַׁבְּלוּלִים

שַׁבְּלוּלֵי

שַׁבְּלוּל • (shablul) m (plural indefinite שַׁבְּלוּלִים, singular construct שַׁבְּלוּל־, plural construct שַׁבְּלוּלֵי־)

שַׁבְּלוּל (canonical)
shablul (romanization)
שַׁבְּלוּלִים (indefinite plural)
שַׁבְּלוּל־ (construct singular)
שַׁבְּלוּלֵי־ (construct plural)

(lutherie) scroll (the carved end of a violin, viola, cello or other stringed instrument, most commonly scroll-shaped but occasionally in the form of a human or animal head)


улитка

ru-noun+

ули́тка • (ulítka) f anim (genitive ули́тки, nominative plural ули́тки, genitive plural ули́ток)

ули́тка (canonical)
ulítka (romanization)
ули́тки (genitive)
ули́тки (nominative plural)
ули́ток (genitive plural)
ули́тка (nominative singular)
ули́тки (nominative plural)
ули́тки (genitive singular)
ули́ток (genitive plural)
ули́тке (dative singular)
ули́ткам (dative plural)
ули́тку (accusative singular)
ули́ток (accusative plural)
ули́ткой (instrumental singular)
ули́ткою (instrumental singular)
ули́тками (instrumental plural)
ули́тке (prepositional singular)
ули́тках (plural prepositional)

→ Turkmen: ulitka

ули́та (ulíta) + -ка (-ka), apparently from у́лей (úlej), compare for the suffix волоки́та (volokíta), раки́та (rakíta). In Belarusian улі́тка (ulítka); not used in Ukrainian (borrowed however in technical senses as улі́тка (ulítka).


pawa

1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
One little patch was divided off by pawa shells […]

(New Zealand) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.

ourmel collective noun ourmelenn singular


šnek

šnek (nominative singular)
šneci (nominative plural)
šneka (genitive singular)
šneků (genitive plural)
šnekovi (dative singular)
šneku (dative singular)
šnekům (dative plural)
šneka (accusative singular)
šneky (accusative plural)
šneku (singular vocative)
šneci (plural vocative)
šnekovi (locative singular)
šneku (locative singular)
šnecích (locative plural)
šnekem (instrumental singular)
šneky (instrumental plural)


šnek

šnek (nominative singular)
šneky (nominative plural)
šneku (genitive singular)
šneků (genitive plural)
šneku (dative singular)
šnekům (dative plural)
šnek (accusative singular)
šneky (accusative plural)
šneku (singular vocative)
šneky (plural vocative)
šneku (locative singular)
šnecích (locative plural)
šnekem (instrumental singular)
šneky (instrumental plural)


money cowry

A mollusc of the species Monetaria moneta (syn. Cypraea moneta), the shells of which were formerly used as money by populations in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.


slimák

cs-noun

slimák m anim (related adjective slimáčí, diminutive slimáček)

slimáčí (adjective)
slimáček (diminutive)
slimák (nominative singular)
slimáci (nominative plural)
slimáka (genitive singular)
slimáků (genitive plural)
slimákovi (dative singular)
slimáku (dative singular)
slimákům (dative plural)
slimáka (accusative singular)
slimáky (accusative plural)
slimáku (singular vocative)
slimáci (plural vocative)
slimákovi (locative singular)
slimáku (locative singular)
slimácích (locative plural)
slimákem (instrumental singular)
slimáky (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech slimák, from Proto-Slavic *slimakъ.


حلزون

حَلَزُون (canonical)
ḥalazūn (romanization)
حَلَزُونَة (feminine singulative)
حَلَزُون (collective indefinite informal triptote)
الْحَلَزُون (collective definite informal triptote)
حَلَزُون (collective construct informal triptote)
حَلَزُونٌ (collective indefinite nominative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونُ (collective definite nominative triptote)
حَلَزُونُ (collective construct nominative triptote)
حَلَزُونًا (accusative collective indefinite triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَ (accusative collective definite triptote)
حَلَزُونَ (accusative collective construct triptote)
حَلَزُونٍ (collective genitive indefinite triptote)
الْحَلَزُونِ (collective definite genitive triptote)
حَلَزُونِ (collective construct genitive triptote)
حَلَزُونَة (ar-infl-a collective indefinite informal singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَة (ar-infl-a collective definite informal singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَة (ar-infl-a collective construct informal singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةٌ (ar-infl-a collective indefinite nominative singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَةُ (ar-infl-a collective definite nominative singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةُ (ar-infl-a collective construct nominative singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةً (accusative ar-infl-a collective indefinite singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a collective definite singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a collective construct singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةٍ (ar-infl-a collective genitive indefinite singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَةِ (ar-infl-a collective definite genitive singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَةِ (ar-infl-a collective construct genitive singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْن (ar-infl-a collective dual indefinite informal singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَتَيْن (ar-infl-a collective definite dual informal singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْ (ar-infl-a collective construct dual informal singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَانِ (ar-infl-a collective dual indefinite nominative singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَتَانِ (ar-infl-a collective definite dual nominative singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَا (ar-infl-a collective construct dual nominative singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a collective dual indefinite singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَتَيْنِ (accusative ar-infl-a collective definite dual singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْ (accusative ar-infl-a collective construct dual singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a collective dual genitive indefinite singulative triptote)
الْحَلَزُونَتَيْنِ (ar-infl-a collective definite dual genitive singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَتَيْ (ar-infl-a collective construct dual genitive singulative triptote)
حَلَزُونَات (feminine indefinite informal paucal sound-form)
الْحَلَزُونَات (definite feminine informal paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَات (construct feminine informal paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتٌ (feminine indefinite nominative paucal sound-form)
الْحَلَزُونَاتُ (definite feminine nominative paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتُ (construct feminine nominative paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتٍ (accusative feminine indefinite paucal sound-form)
الْحَلَزُونَاتِ (accusative definite feminine paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتِ (accusative construct feminine paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتٍ (feminine genitive indefinite paucal sound-form)
الْحَلَزُونَاتِ (definite feminine genitive paucal sound-form)
حَلَزُونَاتِ (construct feminine genitive paucal sound-form)

Borrowed from Aramaic חְלָזֹונָא / ܚܠܵܙܘܿܢܵܐ (ḥəlāzōnā, “snail”). This has been reckoned to be from Ancient Greek ἑλικών (helikṓn) or ἑλικόν (helikón), but visibly it bears the diminutive ending -ōnā, relating to a base verb “to crawl”, see حِسْل (ḥisl, “young of a spiny-tailed lizard”).

bor

Aramaic חְלָזֹונָא


prin

unattested (plural)
prin
brin (soft)
mhrin
phrin


鮑魚

/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ y³⁵/

/paːu̯⁵⁵ jyː²¹/

/ˈpʰau¹¹ n̠ʲie³⁵/

/pau̯²⁴ ŋ̍¹¹/

/pʰau⁵⁵ ŋy³³/

/pʰau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

/pau⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²³/

/pau⁴⁴⁻³³ hu²⁴/

/pau³³⁻²¹ hu²³/

/pau²³⁻³³ hi²³/

/pau²⁴⁻¹¹ hu²⁴/

/pau⁴⁴⁻²² hɯ²⁴/

/pau³⁵⁻¹¹ hɯ⁵⁵/

/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ y³⁵/

/paːu̯⁵⁵ jyː²¹/

/ˈpʰau¹¹ n̠ʲie³⁵/

/pau̯²⁴ ŋ̍¹¹/

/pʰau⁵⁵ ŋy³³/

/pʰau²¹³⁻⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

/pau⁴⁴⁻³³ hi²³/

/pau⁴⁴⁻³³ hu²⁴/

/pau³³⁻²¹ hu²³/

/pau²³⁻³³ hi²³/

/pau²⁴⁻¹¹ hu²⁴/

/pau⁴⁴⁻²² hɯ²⁴/

/pau³⁵⁻¹¹ hɯ⁵⁵/

/paːu̯²² jyː²¹/

/pʰau²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

/pɑʊ̯⁵¹ y³⁵/

/paːu̯²² jyː²¹/

/pau̯²⁴ ŋ̍¹¹/

/pʰau²⁴²⁻⁵⁵ ŋy⁵³/

(figurative, slang) external female genitalia; vulva; vagina


puki

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puki, from Proto-Austronesian *puki.


ormer

From Norman ormèr/ormer, variants of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”).

der

The food I like best of all foods is ormers; but you can't always get them.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 16:

An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the Channel Islands.


voluta

From Latin voluta (“a spiral scroll”). See volute.

(zoology) Any of numerous species of large, handsome marine gastropods belonging to Voluta and allied genera.


salyangoz

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salyangoz (definite accusative salyangozu, plural salyangozlar)

salyangozu (accusative definite)
salyangozlar (plural)
salyangoz (nominative singular)
salyangozlar (nominative plural)
salyangozu (accusative definite singular)
salyangozları (accusative definite plural)
salyangoza (dative singular)
salyangozlara (dative plural)
salyangozda (locative singular)
salyangozlarda (locative plural)
salyangozdan (ablative singular)
salyangozlardan (ablative plural)
salyangozun (genitive singular)
salyangozların (genitive plural)

From Ottoman Turkish صلیانقوس (“snail”), from Greek σάλιαγγας (sáliangas).


pteropod

From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing, feather”) + ποδός (podós), genitive singular of πούς (poús, “foot, leg”). Equivalent to ptero- + -pod.

der

Pteropods, also known as sea butterflies, are marine gastropods adapted to pelagic life.[…]When pteropods constitute a high percentage of the ooze the deposit is called pteropod ooze.

1998, Yvonne Herman, “5: Pteropods”, in B.U. Haq, A. Boersma, editors, Introduction to Marine Micropaleontology, page 151:

For fans of the undersea sci-fi classic The Abyss, a pteropod seems a likely inspiration for the ethereal alien creatures that were the saviors at the film's end.
The muscular foot that most snails use for locomotion has been modified in the pteropods into delicate fins for swimming.

2011, Ellen Prager, Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter, page 33:

Pteropods, or sea butterflies, have a foot that is modified to form a pair of winglike structures that animals use to propel themselves through the water column.

2013, George Karleskint, Jr, Richard Turner, James Small, Jr, Introduction to Marine Biology, 4th edition, Cengage Learning, page 446:

Any of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; a sea butterfly.


hlemýžď

hlemýžď (nominative singular)
hlemýždi (nominative plural)
hlemýždě (genitive singular)
hlemýžďů (genitive plural)
hlemýžďovi (dative singular)
hlemýždi (dative singular)
hlemýžďům (dative plural)
hlemýždě (accusative singular)
hlemýždě (accusative plural)
hlemýždi (singular vocative)
hlemýždi (plural vocative)
hlemýžďovi (locative singular)
hlemýždi (locative singular)
hlemýždích (locative plural)
hlemýžděm (instrumental singular)
hlemýždi (instrumental plural)


lepelepe-o-hina

Compound of lepelepe (“fringed”) + o + hina (“to fall, to blow in the wind”)


painted lady

A painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a forest wildflower of North America.


slinik

slinik (nominative singular)
slinika (dual nominative)
sliniki (nominative plural)
slinika (genitive singular)
slinikowu (dual genitive)
slinikow (genitive plural)
slinikoju (dative singular)
slinikoma (dative dual)
slinikam (dative plural)
slinika (accusative singular)
slinikowu (accusative dual)
sliniki (accusative plural)
slinikow (accusative plural)
slinikom (instrumental singular)
slinikoma (dual instrumental)
slinikami (instrumental plural)
sliniku (locative singular)
slinikoma (dual locative)
slinikach (locative plural)


охлюв

bg-noun

о́хлюв • (óhljuv) m (relational adjective о́хлювен, diminutive о́хлювче)

о́хлюв (canonical)
óhljuv (romanization)
о́хлювен (adjective relational)
о́хлювче (diminutive)
о́хлюв (indefinite singular)
о́хлюви (indefinite plural)
о́хлювът (definite singular subjective)
о́хлювите (definite plural subjective)
о́хлюва (definite objective singular)
о́хлювите (definite objective plural)
о́хлюва (count-form plural)

Borrowed from Greek χοχλίας (chochlías), a dialectal variation of Ancient Greek κοχλίας (kokhlías, “snail”) (whence Old Church Slavonic кохль (koxlĭ), Latin cōchlea (“snail”)). Originally referring to the spiral shell of the snail, later generalized to mean the whole animal.

cog

гол о́хлюв

(mollusk) snail (gastropod of genus Helix)


ślimak

ślimak (nominative singular)
ślimaki (nominative plural)
ślimaku (genitive singular)
ślimaków (genitive plural)
ślimakowi (dative singular)
ślimakom (dative plural)
ślimak (accusative singular)
ślimaki (accusative plural)
ślimakiem (instrumental singular)
ślimakami (instrumental plural)
ślimaku (locative singular)
ślimakach (locative plural)
ślimaku (singular vocative)
ślimaki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish ślimak, from Proto-Slavic *slimakъ.

Suillus luteus
Suillus luteus#Translingual

(obsolete) slippery jack (Suillus luteus)


Purpurschnecke

de-noun

Purpurschnecke f (genitive Purpurschnecke, plural Purpurschnecken)

Purpurschnecke (genitive)
Purpurschnecken (plural)
Purpurschnecke (nominative singular)
Purpurschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Purpurschnecke (genitive singular)
Purpurschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Purpurschnecke (dative singular)
Purpurschnecken (dative definite plural)
Purpurschnecke (accusative singular)
Purpurschnecken (accusative definite plural)

A marine gastropod mollusk, banded dye-murex, Hexaplex trunculus, Murex trunculus


slak

Inherited from Dutch slak, from Middle Dutch slecke, slacke, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *slikkō.


púrpura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora.

(mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)


stożek

stożek (nominative singular)
stożki (nominative plural)
stożka (genitive singular)
stożków (genitive plural)
stożkowi (dative singular)
stożkom (dative plural)
stożka (accusative singular)
stożki (accusative plural)
stożkiem (instrumental singular)
stożkami (instrumental plural)
stożku (locative singular)
stożkach (locative plural)
stożku (singular vocative)
stożki (plural vocative)

From stóg + -ek. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English cone.

sl

cone snail, conid (any mollusk in the family Conidae)


porcellana

cowrie (gastropod of the family Cypraeidae, known for their glossy hard shells)


limaco

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin līmācem. Compare limaza.


purple dye murex

A medium-sized predatory sea snail of species Haustellum brandaris, which secrets a substance that can be used to make a long-lasting purple dye- Tyrian purple.


budyong

a marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell


lepetodrilid

en-adj

lepetodrilid (comparative more lepetodrilid, superlative most lepetodrilid)

more lepetodrilid (comparative)
most lepetodrilid (superlative)


provannid

(biology) Any gastropod of the family Provannidae, especially those found associated with hydrothermal vents


bullid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Bullidae.


limacine

limacine (comparative more limacine, superlative most limacine)

more limacine (comparative)
most limacine (superlative)

Characteristic of slugs of the subfamily Limacinae.


plž

plž (nominative singular)
plži (nominative plural)
plže (genitive singular)
plžů (genitive plural)
plžovi (dative singular)
plži (dative singular)
plžům (dative plural)
plže (accusative singular)
plže (accusative plural)
plži (singular vocative)
plži (plural vocative)
plžovi (locative singular)
plži (locative singular)
plžích (locative plural)
plžem (instrumental singular)
plži (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech plž, from Proto-Slavic *pьlžь.


ormeau

From Latin auris maris (“ear of the sea”).


peneira

13th century. From Vulgar Latin *pinnaria, from Latin pinna (“feather”). Note that medieval Galician pena meant "pelt". Cognate with Portuguese peneira and Asturian peñera.


海螺

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ lɔː²¹⁻³⁵/

/xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ lu̯ɔ³⁵/

/hɔːi̯³⁵ lɔː²¹⁻³⁵/


limace

Inherited from Old French [Term?] (cf. the form limaz), from Vulgar Latin *limacea, ultimately from Latin limax (“slug, snail”).


scungilli

en-noun

scungilli (countable and uncountable, plural scungillis or scungilli)

(US) Whelk, especially when prepared as food.


խխունջ

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խխունջ • (xxunǰ)

hy-noun

խխունջ • (xxunǰ)

xxunǰ (romanization)
խխունջ (nominative singular)
խխունջներ (nominative plural)
խխունջի (dative singular)
խխունջների (dative plural)
խխունջից (ablative singular)
խխունջներից (ablative plural)
խխունջով (instrumental singular)
խխունջներով (instrumental plural)
խխունջը (definite nominative singular)
խխունջն (definite nominative singular)
խխունջները (definite nominative plural)
խխունջներն (definite nominative plural)
խխունջին (dative definite singular)
խխունջներին (dative definite plural)
խխունջս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
խխունջներս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
խխունջիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
խխունջներիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
խխունջիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
խխունջներիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
խխունջովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
խխունջներովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
խխունջդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
խխունջներդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
խխունջիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
խխունջներիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
խխունջիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
խխունջներիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
խխունջովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
խխունջներովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

խխունջը/խխունջն

խխունջները/խխունջներն

խխունջներիցս

խխունջներովս

խխունջներիցդ

խխունջներովդ

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Learned borrowing from Old Armenian խղունջն (xłunǰn).


螺螄

/lu̯ɔ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/

/lu̯ɔ³⁵ sz̩³/

/lɔː²¹ siː⁵⁵/

/lu̯ɔ³⁵ sz̩⁵⁵/

/lu̯ɔ³⁵ sz̩³/

/lɔː²¹ siː⁵⁵/

river snail (a generic term referring to freshwater snails)


siphonariid

Any member of the family Siphonariidae of air-breathing sea snails.


samong

a species of top snail (Trochus niloticus)


σαλιγκάρι

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σαλιγκάρι • (saligkári) n (plural σαλιγκάρια)

saligkári (romanization)
σαλιγκάρια (plural)
σαλιγκάρι (nominative singular)
σαλιγκάρια (nominative plural)
σαλιγκαριού (genitive singular)
σαλιγκαριών (genitive plural)
σαλιγκάρι (accusative singular)
σαλιγκάρια (accusative plural)
σαλιγκάρι (singular vocative)
σαλιγκάρια (plural vocative)


coclea

la-noun

coclea f (genitive cocleae); first declension

cocleae (genitive)
coclea (nominative singular)
cocleae (nominative plural)
cocleae (genitive singular)
cocleārum (genitive plural)
cocleae (dative singular)
cocleīs (dative plural)
cocleam (accusative singular)
cocleās (accusative plural)
cocleā (ablative singular)
cocleīs (ablative plural)
coclea (singular vocative)
cocleae (plural vocative)

Alternative form of cochlea (“a snail, spiral”).


голич

golič (romanization)
голичи (plural)
голич (indefinite singular)
голичи (indefinite plural)
голичот (definite singular unspecified)
голичите (definite plural unspecified)
голичов (definite proximal singular)
голичиве (definite plural proximal)
голичон (definite distal singular)
голичине (definite distal plural)
голичу (singular vocative)
голичи (plural vocative)
голича (count-form plural)


lordu

From Armenian լորտու (lortu) and its dialectal forms.


karakol

Borrowed from Spanish caracol (“snail”).

the imperial volute (Cymbiola imperialis)


tibo

a spindle snail or tulip snail; any member of the family Fasciolariidae


limaccia

From Latin līmax, possibly through a Vulgar Latin *limacea. Cognate to French limace, Jèrriais lînmache. Cf. also lumaca.


dorid

(zoology) Any member of the taxonomic superfamily Doridoidea of nudibranchs.


opisthobranch

/ɵˈpɪsθəbɹæŋk/

(zoology) A gastropod with gills behind the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group.


sea hare

From their marine habitat and a pair of rhinophores that resemble a rabbit's ears.

Pliny saith that there are certaine Seahares in India that to us are poison, and we bane to them; so that we die if we but touch them; now whether is man or the Sea-hare poison?

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Any member of the order Aplysiamorpha or Anaspidea, large marine gastropod molluscs with a soft internal shell made of protein.


seilide

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seilide m (genitive singular seilide, nominative plural seilidí)

seilide (genitive singular)
seilidí (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
seilide (indefinite singular)
seilidí (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a sheilide (indefinite singular)
a sheilidí (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an seilide (definite singular)
na seilidí (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an tseilide (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an seilide (definite singular)
don seilide (definite singular)
leis na seilidí (definite plural)
seilide
sheilide
tseilide

From Middle Irish seilche (“snail”), from Old Irish selige (“animal with a shell”), from Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”), see also English steal, Old Armenian սողիմ (sołim, “to creep”).

inh

snail, slug (any animal of the class Gastropoda with or without a shell)


olivella

(mollusk) purple dwarf olive (Olivella biplicata)


great ramshorn

Planorbarius corneus, a freshwater air-breathing snail


Posthornschnecke

de-noun

Posthornschnecke f (genitive Posthornschnecke, plural Posthornschnecken)

Posthornschnecke (genitive)
Posthornschnecken (plural)
Posthornschnecke (nominative singular)
Posthornschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Posthornschnecke (genitive singular)
Posthornschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Posthornschnecke (dative singular)
Posthornschnecken (dative definite plural)
Posthornschnecke (accusative singular)
Posthornschnecken (accusative definite plural)

From Posthorn (“post horn”) + Schnecke (“snail”).

compound

great ramshorn, Planorbarius corneus, a freshwater air-breathing snail


loche

Inherited from Old French loche, further origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuca (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug.

(zoology) one of the several species of giant slugs belonging to the families Arionidae and Limacidae


mason shell

(zoology) carrier shell (family Xenophoridae)


carrier shell

Any marine snail of the family Xenophoridae, which cements stones and shell fragments to its own shell.


sea slug

A common name for any marine invertebrate with a visual resemblance to terrestrial slugs (land slugs).


glaucus

From Ancient Greek γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green, blue-grey”).

der

Any member of the genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea, strikingly colored with blue and silvery white.


κοχλίας

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κοχλῐ́ᾱς • (kokhlíās) m (genitive κοχλίου); first declension

κοχλῐ́ᾱς (canonical)
kokhlíās (romanization)
κοχλίου (genitive)
ὁ κοχλῐ́ᾱς (nominative singular)
τὼ κοχλῐ́ᾱ (dual nominative)
οἱ κοχλῐ́αι (nominative plural)
τοῦ κοχλῐ́ου (genitive singular)
τοῖν κοχλῐ́αιν (dual genitive)
τῶν κοχλῐῶν (genitive plural)
τῷ κοχλῐ́ᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν κοχλῐ́αιν (dative dual)
τοῖς κοχλῐ́αις (dative plural)
τὸν κοχλῐ́ᾱν (accusative singular)
τὼ κοχλῐ́ᾱ (accusative dual)
τοὺς κοχλῐ́ᾱς (accusative plural)
κοχλῐ́ᾱ (singular vocative)
κοχλῐ́ᾱ (dual vocative)
κοχλῐ́αι (plural vocative)

Greek: κοχλίας (kochlías)

→ Latin: coclea

From κόχλος (kókhlos, “shellfish with a spiral shell”) + -ῐ́ᾱς (-íās, nominal suffix).

af

anything twisted spirally:
screw, especially Archimedes screw


Seehase

de-noun

Seehase m (weak, genitive Seehasen, plural Seehasen)

Seehasen (genitive)
Seehasen (plural)
Seehase (nominative singular)
Seehasen (definite nominative plural)
Seehasen (genitive singular)
Seehasen (definite genitive plural)
Seehasen (dative singular)
Seehasen (dative definite plural)
Seehasen (accusative singular)
Seehasen (accusative definite plural)


seilcheag

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seilcheag f (genitive singular seilcheig, plural seilcheagan)

seilcheig (genitive singular)
seilcheagan (plural)
seilcheag
sheilcheag
after "an"
t-seilcheag


слизень

ru-noun+

сли́зень • (slízenʹ) m anim (genitive сли́зня, nominative plural сли́зни, genitive plural сли́зней)

сли́зень (canonical)
slízenʹ (romanization)
сли́зня (genitive)
сли́зни (nominative plural)
сли́зней (genitive plural)
сли́зень (nominative singular)
сли́зни (nominative plural)
сли́зня (genitive singular)
сли́зней (genitive plural)
сли́зню (dative singular)
сли́зням (dative plural)
сли́зня (accusative singular)
сли́зней (accusative plural)
сли́знем (instrumental singular)
сли́знями (instrumental plural)
сли́зне (prepositional singular)
сли́знях (plural prepositional)

[ˈs⁽ʲ⁾lʲizʲɪnʲ]


limax

la-noun

līmāx f (genitive līmācis); third declension

līmāx (canonical feminine)
līmācis (genitive)
līmāx (nominative singular)
līmācēs (nominative plural)
līmācis (genitive singular)
līmācum (genitive plural)
līmācī (dative singular)
līmācibus (dative plural)
līmācem (accusative singular)
līmācēs (accusative plural)
līmāce (ablative singular)
līmācibus (ablative plural)
līmāx (singular vocative)
līmācēs (plural vocative)

⇒? Vulgar Latin: *lēmecis

Galician: lesma

Portuguese: lesma

⇒ limācem

Asturian: llimaz

Occitan: limaç

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limāca

Italo-Romance:

Italian: lumaca

North-Italian:

Lombard: lumaga, lumega, numega

Lombard: lumaga, lumega

Piedmontese: lumega

Romagnol: lumega, lumeaga

Venetan: łimega

Gallo-Romance:

Gascon: limaca

Occitan: limauca, limaca

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācum

North-Italian:

Emilian: lumec

Gallo-Romance:

Aragonese: limaco, llimaco

Catalan: llimac

Gascon: limac

Occitan: limauc, limac

Ibero-Romance:

Asturian: llimiagu

Spanish: limaco, lumiaco

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *limācea

Italo-Romance:

Italian: limaccia

Sicilian: limaccia

Gallo-Romance:

French: limace

Occitan: limaça

Norman: lînmache

North-Italian:

Ligurian: lumassa

Piedmontese: limassa, lumassa

Romansch: glimaja

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: limacha

Spanish: limaza

Borrowings:

→ Interlingua: limace

→ Romanian: limax

→ Translingual: Limax

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεῖμαξ (leîmax), from Proto-Indo-European *sleh₁y-m-.


trochus

From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).

(malacology) Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.


ἀράχνη

grc-noun

ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη • (arákhnē) f (genitive ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης); first declension

ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη (canonical)
arákhnē (romanization)
ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης (genitive)
ἡ ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη (nominative singular)
τὼ ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χναι (nominative plural)
τῆς ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης (genitive singular)
τοῖν ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χναιν (dual genitive)
τῶν ᾰ̓ρᾰχνῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνῃ (dative singular)
τοῖν ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χναιν (dative dual)
ταῖς ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χναις (dative plural)
τὴν ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνην (accusative singular)
τὼ ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνᾱς (accusative plural)
ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη (singular vocative)
ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνᾱ (dual vocative)
ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χναι (plural vocative)

> Greek: αράχνη (aráchni) (inherited)

desctree

> Pontic Greek: αράχνα (aráchna), 'ράχνα ('ráchna), 'ράχνα̤ ('ráchnä), αράνα (arána) (inherited)
→ Laz: რახნა (raxna)
→ Turkish: arahna, araḫana, rağna, rahna, raḫna

desc

> Tsakonian: αράχνα (aráchna), αράχλα (aráchla) (inherited)

→? Latin: arānea

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⇒ Translingual: Arachnida
⇒ English: arachnoid
→ French: arachnide
→ English: arachnid

Pre-Greek origin, although related to Latin arānea. Whether it is the source of the Latin term or they both originated from a different common source is unclear. Basque armiarma and Basque aramu possibly may be distantly related to the substrate.

497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 286

Feminine form of ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης (arákhnēs).
spider web

Feminine form of ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης (arákhnēs).
cow parsnip

Feminine form of ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνης (arákhnēs).
A kind of sundial (mollusc).


tooq

From Proto-Semai *tooʔ, from Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *gtooʔ (“snail”). Cognate with Mon တု.


abulón

→ English: abalone

Borrowed from Southern Ohlone aūlun (“red abalone”) or a neighboring language.


Weinbergschnecke

de-noun

Weinbergschnecke f (genitive Weinbergschnecke, plural Weinbergschnecken)

Weinbergschnecke (genitive)
Weinbergschnecken (plural)
Weinbergschnecke (nominative singular)
Weinbergschnecken (definite nominative plural)
Weinbergschnecke (genitive singular)
Weinbergschnecken (definite genitive plural)
Weinbergschnecke (dative singular)
Weinbergschnecken (dative definite plural)
Weinbergschnecke (accusative singular)
Weinbergschnecken (accusative definite plural)

/ˈvaɪ̯nbɛʁkˌʃnɛkə/

apple snail, escargot (edible snail from the genus Helix)


buccino

Borrowed from Latin būccinum, variant of būcinum. See buzo.


ianthina

But a clammy feeling soon dampened his enthusiasm, and he looked down to find his fine white suit streaked with violet where the ianthinas had discharged their ink.

1949, Ray Smith Bassler, Shelled creatures and geological history:

Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae) of violet snails.


turtler

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-turtler.wav


přílipka

přílipka (nominative singular)
přílipky (nominative plural)
přílipky (genitive singular)
přílipek (genitive plural)
přílipce (dative singular)
přílipkám (dative plural)
přílipku (accusative singular)
přílipky (accusative plural)
přílipko (singular vocative)
přílipky (plural vocative)
přílipce (locative singular)
přílipkách (locative plural)
přílipkou (instrumental singular)
přílipkami (instrumental plural)


pyram

Any of many ectoparasitic sea snails of the family Pyramidellidae


σαλίγκαρος

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σαλίγκαρος • (salígkaros) m (plural σαλίγκαροι)

salígkaros (romanization)
σαλίγκαροι (plural)
σαλίγκαρος (nominative singular)
σαλίγκαροι (nominative plural)
σαλίγκαρου (genitive singular)
σαλίγκαρων (genitive plural)
σαλίγκαρο (accusative singular)
σαλίγκαρους (accusative plural)
σαλίγκαρε (singular vocative)
σαλίγκαροι (plural vocative)

σαλιγκάρι σαλιγκάρι#Greek

Alternative form of σαλιγκάρι (saligkári) (snail, especially a large one)


xona

type of small land snail (Iberus gualtieranus alonensis) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula


naticoid

en-adj

naticoid (comparative more naticoid, superlative most naticoid)

more naticoid (comparative)
most naticoid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling or belonging to the genus Natica of moon snails.


cargolí

a small snail, especially the common periwinkle (Littorina littorea)


法螺貝

法螺貝 (canonical)
法螺貝 (canonical)
horagai (romanization)

Charonia tritonis
Daijirin
Horagai
ja:法螺貝

Compound of 法螺 (hora, “boasting, bragging”) + 貝 (kai, “shell, shellfish”). The kai changes to gai as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

陣貝

a horagai shell horn used to signal troops

a horn made from a Triton's trumpet shell


prosobranch

(zoology) A gastropod with gills in front of the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group, Prosobranchia.


nerite

Any snail of the genus Nerita, or more generally, of the family Neritidae.


inferobranchian

(zoology, obsolete) Any of the Inferobranchiata, a former suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, now mostly classified as Armina and Phyllidia.


limpin

16th-century dialectal variant of limpet.

The Limpins, Muskles, and Scallops.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book I.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:


sea trumpet

en-noun

sea trumpet (countable and uncountable, plural sea trumpets)

Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton.


vermetid

(zoology) Any species of Vermetidae (worm snails).


turbinella

(zoology) Any of the genus Turbinella of large marine gastropods.


land snail

Inherited from Middle English lond snayl (attested in the plural londe snayles), equivalent to land + snail. Compare water snail, sea snail, etc.

inh+

The land-snail Achatinella evolved a thousand or more species.

2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 34:

Any species of snail that lives on land (Caenogastropoda spp. etc.).


caracola

shell of a marine snail (the kind that can be blown as a musical instrument)


turritella

/ˌtʌɹɪˈtɛlə/

From the New Latin genus name Turritella.

(zoology) Any sea snail of the genus Turritella (or allied genera) of spiral marine gastropods with an elongated, turreted shell.


achatina

(zoology) Any of the snails of the genus Achatina.


purple-fish

en-noun

purple-fish (usually uncountable, plural purple-fishes)

A shellfish, probably of the genus Murex, the classical source of Tyrian purple


vermetus

From translingual Vermetus, from Latin vermis (“worm”).

(zoology) Any of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae.


patela

A semi-learned form from Latin patella (“a shallow pan”).

Patella vulgata
Patella vulgata#Translingual


wentletrap

Borrowed from Dutch wenteltrap (“a winding staircase”); compare German Wendeltreppe.

bor

Any of numerous species of elegant, usually white, marine shells of the family Epitoniidae, especially Epitonium scalare, which was formerly highly valued.

wenteltrap

any of numerous species of elegant marine shells of the genus Epitonium


sea butterfly

Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 284:

A small pelagic sea snail of the suborder Thecosomata.


physa

Any of several species of freshwater snails, included in the subfamily Physidae.


λαγώς

grc-noun

λᾰγώς • (lagṓs) m (genitive λᾰγώ); second declension

λᾰγώς (canonical)
lagṓs (romanization)
λᾰγώ (genitive)
ὁ λᾰγώς (nominative singular)
τὼ λᾰγώ (dual nominative)
οἱ λᾰγῴ (nominative plural)
τοῦ λᾰγώ (genitive singular)
τοῖν λᾰγῴν (dual genitive)
τῶν λᾰγών (genitive plural)
τῷ λᾰγῴ (dative singular)
τοῖν λᾰγῴν (dative dual)
τοῖς λᾰγῴς (dative plural)
τὸν λᾰγώ (accusative singular)
λᾰγών (accusative singular)
tòn lagṓ (accusative singular)
tòn lagṓn (accusative singular)
τὼ λᾰγώ (accusative dual)
τοὺς λᾰγώς (accusative plural)
λᾰγώς (singular vocative)
λᾰγώ (dual vocative)
λᾰγῴ (plural vocative)

Greek: λαγός (lagós)

Persian: لاغوس (lâğus) (obsolete)

English: lagomorph

Translingual: Lagos, Lagurus

From *λαγοωυσός (*lagoōusós, “with flabby ears”), from *λαγο- (*lago-) (possibly the same root as English slack) and οὖς (oûs). Typologically compare Ossetian тӕрхъус (tærqus, “hare”, literally “long-ear”).

cog

sea hare (gastropod of the genus Aplysia)


turnip shell

The shell of any several large, thick, spiral sea snails belonging to genus Rapa and pthers, roughly turnip-shaped.

Rapana rapiformis (syn. Rapana bulbosa).


turban shell

A marine gastropod of the family Turbinidae, or the shell thereof.


hoddydoddy

From hoddy-dod, an obsolete English regionalism meaning “periwinkle” or “snail”. Compare dodman.

A River snail in Oxfordshire is “Hoddy-doddy”; in Northamptonshire the Wall snail is “Packman snail.”

1899, W.T. Fernie, Animal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 448:

(obsolete, England) A snail; a snail’s shell.


melanian

(malacology, obsolete) One of a family of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks with a turret-shaped shell (Melaniidae), which is now considered a synonym for the family Thiaridae, but also containing many species since reclassified into other families.


hodmandod

But more the pity of the Gods / Extended toward these Hodmandods[.]

1653, The Loves of Hero and Leander: A Mock Poem, London, page 12:

The Creatures that caſt their Skin are, the Snake, the Viper, the Grashopper, the Lizard, the Silk-worm, &c. Thoſe that caſt their Shell are, the Lobſter, the Crab, the Cra-fish, the Hodmandod or Dodman, the Tortoise, &c. The old Skins are found, but the old Shells never: So as it is like they ſcale off, and crumble away by degrees.

1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries. Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Published after the Authors Death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, One of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is Added Articles of Inquiry, Touching Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. As also the Life of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Never Added to this Book before. [...] With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things Contained in the Ten Centuries, 9th and last edition, London: Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [et al.], →OCLC, page 154:

(Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, dialectal) A snail.

' Recorded at the Essex sites of Little Baddow and Little Bentley in the Atlas Linguarum Europae.


ormèr

Variant of French ormier, contraction of oreille-de-mer, from Late Latin *auris maris (“ear of the sea”), from Latin auris (“ear”) + mare (“sea”).


bubble shell

Any of the headshield slugs of genus Bulla, belonging to the order Cephalaspidea of gastropods.

(malacology) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla (Bullidae) and certain shells of similar appearance of the now disused order Tectibranchiata of molluscs.

Any of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae), of pelagic sea snails.


strombus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos, “shell, conch, snail”).

uder

(zoology) Any conch of the genus Strombus. Most subspecies are known as forms of fighting conchs.


dodman

Alfred Watkins
Michael Quinion
Running Press
The Old Straight Track

Possibly dod (“(archaic) rounded, bare hilltop”) + -man, in the sense of a creature carrying a hill on its back. The word dod is from dod (“to clip, cut or lop off”), from Middle English dodden (“to shave, shear; to trim (a plant); to poll (cattle); to cut off (someone's head)”), from dod, dodde (“measure of grain”), from Old English.
The surveyor sense appears to be based on a misconception by English amateur archaeologist and author Alfred Watkins (1855–1935) in his book The Old Straight Track (1925).

der

HOD′MANDOD, n., A shell-fish, otherwise called dodman.

[1828, Noah Webster, “HOD′MANDOD”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volumes I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: Published by S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven, →OCLC, column 2:

1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century VIII”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries. […], 9th and last edition, London: Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee, […], →OCLC, page 154:

Any shellfish which casts its shell, such as a lobster.


fllie

Vent d'amont ôve pllie, ne vaut pas un fllie.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 533:

An east wind with rain is not worth a limpet.


rice shell

Any of numerous species of sea snails of the genus Olivella of dwarf olives.


coque à j'vaux

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coque à j'vaux f (plural coques à j'vaux)


v'lique suaïse

v'lique suaïse f (plural v'liques suaïses)


hyalea

From a taxonomic name, Hyalaeidae, that was used erroneously for the genus for many years.


buckie

Uncertain; perhaps compare Latin buccinum (“whelk”).


boat shell

(zoology) A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymbium, syn. Cymba.


cassid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cassidae.


vetigastropod

(zoology) Any of the subclass Vetigastropoda of sea snails.


turbite

(paleontology) A fossil sea snail of the genus Turbo.


ormé

From Old French, from Late Latin *auris maris.


rissoid

translingual Rissoa ("the typical genus") + -oid.

(zoology) Any of the spiral-shaped gastropods of the family Rissoidae, especially those of the genus Rissoa.


sea lemon

Any of several species of nudibranchs of the family Dorididae, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.


lînmache

From Old French [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *limacea, ultimately from Latin limax (“slug, snail”). Compare French limace.


clionid

(zoology) Any member of the family Clionidae of sea angels.


sea angel

Its flapping appendages (parapodia) suggest an angel's wings.

Any of a group of small swimming sea slugs of the suborder Gymnosomata


wing-shell

Any marine gastropod shell formerly in the genus Strombus, with species now assigned to several genera, principally in the family Strombidae.


croggan

From time immemorial "croggans" and "bollachans" or milk basins were made out of clay by the people in the district for their domestic use, but besides these there is no record of any other utensils having been manufactured.

1901, Windsor and Kenfield, Brick and Clay Record, volumes 14-15, page 265:

He had sent the ground officer with a "croggan of tar" with which he marked the ears of all the stock.

1982, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, volume 53, page 72:

In the Western Isles a native tradition of building pots, known as croggans, by hand, survived into the 20th century.

1989, National Museums of Scotland, The Wealth of a Nation, page 139:

(Scotland) A clay urn made by hand in the Outer Hebrides.


fasciolariid

(zoology) Any in the family Fasciolariidae of sea snails.


tulip shell

Any of the marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Fasciolaria, especially Fasciolaria tulipa.


sea snail

From Middle English *se-snail, from Old English sǣsnæġl (“seasnail”), equivalent to sea + snail. Cognate with Danish søsnegl (“seasnail”), Norwegian sjøsnegl (“seasnail”), Icelandic sjósnigill (“seasnail”).

Any saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).


muricid

(zoology) Any member of the family Muricidae of rock snails.


acavid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Acavidae.


achatinellid

(malacology) Any member of the family Achatinellidae of gastropods.


achatinid

(malacology) Any member of the Achatinidae.


acmaeid

(malacology) Any gastropod in the family Acmaeidae.


acteonid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Acteonidae.


agriolimacid

(malacology) Any member of the family Agriolimacidae.


acteonellid

And marine snails called actaeonellids abounded, the largest of which, shaped like an artillery shell, would fill your hand.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 27:

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Acteonellidae.


akerid

(malacology) Any sea snail in the family Akeridae.


aglajid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Aglajidae.


amastrid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amastridae.


xenophorid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Xenophoridae.


amnicolid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amnicolidae.


zygopleurid

(zoology) Any member of the Zygopleuridae.


amphibolid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amphibolidae.


ampullariid

(zoology) Any member of the Ampullariidae.


anabathrid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Anabathridae.


ampullinid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Ampullinidae.


ancylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ancylidae, now tribe Ancylini, of certain limpets and ramshorn snails.


annulariid

(zoology) Any member of the family Annulariidae.


anomphalid

(zoology) Any of the extinct gastropods in the family Anomphalidae.


anatomid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Anatomidae.


aperid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Chlamydephoridae, formerly known as the Aperidae.


aplysiid

(zoology) Any sea hare in the family Aplysiidae.


aporrhaid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Aporrhaidae.


architectonicid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Architectonicidae.


areneid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Areneidae


arionid

(zoology) Any of the slugs in the family Arionidae.


arminid

(zoology) Any of the sea slugs in the family Arminidae.


assimineid

(zoology) Any of the gastropods in the family Assimineidae.


ataphrid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ataphridae, which is probably a synonym for the family Trochaclididae.


athoracophorid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Athoracophoridae.


atlantid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Atlantidae.


barleeid

(zoology) Any of the gastropods in the family Barleeidae.


bathysciadiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Bathysciadiidae.


batillariid

(zoology) Any gastropod of the family Batillariidae.


bithyniid

(zoology) Any gastropod of the family Bithyniidae.


bornellid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Bornellidae.


bothriembryontid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Bothriembryontidae.


bradybaenid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Bradybaenidae.


ariophantid

(zoology) Any of the slugs in the family Ariophantidae.


bucaniid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Bucaniidae.


bulimulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Bulimulidae.


bursid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Bursidae.


caecid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Caecidae.


caliphyllid

(zoology) Any member of the Caliphyllidae.


calliostomatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Calliostomatidae.


camaenid

(zoology) Any land snail of the family Camaenidae.


calyptraeid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Calyptraeidae.


campanilid

(zoology) Any member of the family Campanilidae.


capulid

(zoology) Any gastropod the family Capulidae.


carinariid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Carinariidae.


carychiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Carychiidae, often considered to be the ellobiid subfamily Carychiinae.


caryodid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Caryodidae.


cassiopid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cassiopidae.


cavoliniid

(zoology) Any sea butterfly in the family Cavoliniidae.


cerithiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cerithiidae.


cancellariid

More recently, Beu & Maxwell (1987) erected the subfamily Plesiotritoninae to include very high-spired varicate cancellariids with non-collabral axial sculpture that were previously placed in the families Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae and Ranellidae.

1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 846:

The present paper is a continuation of our study of the deep-water cancellariid fauna of the Southwest Pacific, based on the material originating from recent expeditions in New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga, Wallis & Futuna, […]

Closely related cancellariid species from California have been observed to feed in this manner, and the deep-water southwestern Florida species may also be a similar suctorial feeder.

2014, Edward J. Petuch, Molluscan Communities of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Areas:

(zoology) Any member of the Cancellariidae, or nutmeg snails.


cerionid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Cerionidae.


cerithiopsid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cerithiopsidae.


charopid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Charopidae.


chilinid

(zoology) Any water snail in the family Chilinidae.


chondrinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Chondrinidae.


chronid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Chronidae.


chromodoridid

(zoology) Any sea slug of the family Chromodorididae


cingulopsid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cingulopsidae.


cimid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cimidae.


clausiliid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Clausiliidae.


clavatulid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Clavatulidae.


clisospirid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Clisospiridae.


cocculinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cocculinidae.


clypeosectid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Clypeosectidae, which is now known as the Lepetodrilidae.


colubrariid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Colubrariidae.


columbariid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Columbariidae.


colloniid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Colloniidae.


colombellinid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Colombellinidae.


columbellid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Columbellidae.


cliopsid

(zoology) Any sea angel in the family Cliopsidae.


coralliophilid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Coralliophilidae, now considered to be the muricid subfamily Coralliophilinae.


corillid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Corillidae.


costellariid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Costellariidae.


cocculinellid

Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.

1981, New Zealand Marine Sciences Newsletter, page 76:

In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.

1985, B. A. Marshall, “Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales”, in New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 12, number 4, page 541:

Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.

1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663:

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.


cirrid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cirridae.


cyclostrematid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cyclostrematidae.


cymatiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cymatiidae.


cypraeid

(zoology) Any cowry in the family Cypraeidae.


conid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.


cymbuliid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cymbuliidae.


cystiscid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cystiscidae.


cystopeltid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Cystopeltidae.


dendronotid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dendronotidae.


cylichnid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Cylichnidae.


cyclophorid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Cyclophoridae.


dendrodoridid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dendrodorididae.


desmopterid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Desmopteridae.


dialid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Dialidae.


diaphanid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Diaphanidae.


diplommatinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Diplommatinidae.


discid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Discidae.


dotoid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the Dotidae under the obsolete name Dotoidae.


doridid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dorididae.


dotid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Dotidae.


eatoniellid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Eatoniellidae.


elonid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Elonidae.


ellobiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ellobiidae of air-breathing saltwater snails.


elysiid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Elysiidae, a synonym of the Plakobranchidae.


endodontid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Endodontidae.


eotomariid

(zoology) Any member of the gastropod family Eotomariidae.


epitoniid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Epitoniidae; a wentletrap.


enid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Enidae.


eulimid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Eulimidae.


eubranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Eubranchidae.


euconulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Euconulidae.


euomphalid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Euomphalidae.


facelinid

(zoology) Any sea slug of the family Facelinidae.


ficid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ficidae; a fig shell.


ferussaciid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Ferussaciidae.


fionid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Fionidae.


fissurellid

(zoology) Any keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.


firolid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Firolidae.


flabellinid

(zoology) Any of the family Flabellinidae of sea slugs.


gadiniid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Gadiniidae, a synonym of the Trimusculidae.


gastropterid

(zoology) Any sluglike gastropod in the family Gastropteridae.


gazid

(zoology) gastropod in the family Gazidae, now known as the Margaritidae.


glaucid

(zoology) Any nudibranch in the family Glaucidae.


goniodoridid

(malacology) Any sea slug in the family Goniodorididae.


harpid

(zoology) Any member of the family Harpidae of snails.


helicarionid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicarionidae.


helicodiscid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Helicodiscidae.


haliotid

(zoology) Abalone, any member of the family Haliotidae.


helicid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicidae.


hermaeid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Hermaeidae.


helminthoglyptid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae, now considered to be the xanthonychid subfamily Helminthoglyptinae.


hipponicid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hipponicidae.


holopeid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Holopeidae.


hormotomid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Hormotomidae, now known as the Murchisoniidae.


helicinid

(zoology) Any snails in the family Helicinidae.


hydatinid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hydatinidae.


hydrobiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hydrobiidae.


hydrocenid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hydrocenidae.


hexabranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Hexabranchidae.


hygromiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hygromiidae.


iravadiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Iravadiidae.


janthinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae); a wentletrap.


juliid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Juliidae.


janolid

A third species of janolid has been collected from San Diego, California and was depicted by Behrens (1980, fig. 152).

Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids.

1982, Annals of the South African Museum, volume 86, page 40:

As an example, the up to now unknown structure and function of the janolid caruncle (see GOSLINER 1994) was investigated herein.

2003, Michael Schrödl, Sea slugs of southern South America, page 117:

(zoology) Any member of the Janolidae (synonym of Proctonotidae), a family of sea slugs.


lamellariid

(zoology) Any of the gastropods in the family Lamellariidae, now considered the velutinid subfamily Lamellariinae.


latiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Latiidae.


laubierinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Laubierinidae.


lepetid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Lepetidae.


lauriid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Lauriidae.


limapontiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Limapontiidae.


limacid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Limacidae.


littorinid

(zoology) Any member of the Littorinidae of univalves.


litiopid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Litiopidae.


lophospirid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Lophospiridae.


limacinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Limacinidae of heterobranch snails, known as sea butterflies.


lepetellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Lepetellidae.


loxonematid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Loxonematidae.


lottiid

(zoology)Any gastropod in the family Lottiidae.


lymnaeid

(zoology) Any pond snail in the family Lymnaeidae.


macluritid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Macluritidae.


maizaniid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Maizaniidae.


marginellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Marginellidae.


liotiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Liotiidae.


megaspirid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Megaspiridae.


melanopsid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Melanopsidae.


melaniid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Melaniidae (synonym of family Thiaridae).


melongenid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Melongenidae.


microdomatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Microdomatidae.


magilid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Magilidae, synonym for the muricid subfamily Coralliophilinae.


microhedylid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Microhedylidae, possibly a synonym of the Parhedylidae.


micromelaniid

(zoology) Any aquatic snail in the family Micromelaniidae, now considered to be a synonym of the hydrobiid subfamily Pyrgulinae.


mathildid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Mathildidae.


mitrid

(zoology) Any in the family Mitridae of sea snails.


modulid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Modulidae.


murchisoniid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Murchisoniidae.


milacid

The buccal mass in milacids is spheroidal, and contains an oxygnathic jaw.

2004, G. M. Barker, Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs, page 299:

Chemically unknown tissue toxins from internal organs that may kill Pterostichus carabids are uniquely known from the milacid slug Tandonia budapestensis, which shows an aposematic coloration (orange dorsal line).

2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology, page 392:

The atrium is a simple structure in the Limacidae and in Milacidae but in some milacid slugs it is equipped with a stimulator (see Section 5.1.7) and, in most milacids, accessory or atrial glands open into the atrium.

2012, A. South, Terrestrial Slugs: Biology, ecology and control, page 110:

(zoology) Any member of the family Milacidae of slugs.


nacellid

(zoology) Any limpet in the family Nacellidae.


nassariid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Nassariidae.


naticid

(zoology) Any the family Naticidae of gastropods.


neolepetopsid

(zoology) Any limpet in the family Neolepetopsidae.


neomphalid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Neomphalidae.


nerineid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Nerineidae.


neritiliid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Neritiliidae.


neritid

(zoology) Any in sea snail in the family Neritidae; a nerite.


neritopsid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Neritopsidae.


nerinellid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Nerinellidae.


odostomiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Odostomiidae, now considered to be the pyramidellid subfamily Odostomiinae.


oleacinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Oleacinidae.


olivid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Olividae.


onchidiid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Onchidiidae.


olivellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Olivellidae, now considered to be part of the family Olividae.


omphalotrochid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Omphalotrochidae.


onychochilid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Onychochilidae.


orculid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Orculidae.


orbitestellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Orbitestellidae.


oxynoid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Oxynoidae


oreohelicid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Oreohelicidae.


oriostomatid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Oriostomatidae.


ovulid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ovulidae.


otinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Otinidae.


pachychilid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Pachychilidae.


osteopeltid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Osteopeltidae.


paludomid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Paludomidae.


palaeozygopleurid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Palaeozygopleuridae.


parmacellid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Parmacellidae.


partulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Partulidae.


pediculariid

(zoology) Any cowrie or related gastropod in the family Pediculariidae, now considered to be the ovulid subfamily Pediculariinae.


patellid

(zoology) Any limpet in the family Patellidae.


peltospirid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Peltospiridae.


perissityid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Perissityidae.


phasianellid

(zoology) Any member of species of the family Phasianellidae of gastropods.


philomycid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Philomycidae.


philinid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Philinidae.


phenacolepadid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Phenacolepadidae.


philinoglossid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Philinoglossidae.


personid

In the personid genus Distorsio, varix formation is accompanied by a reorientation of the aperture.

1995, Geerat J. Vermeij, A Natural History of Shells, page 31:

Current research shows the personids to be more similar anatomically to the Ficidae than to the Ranellidae (Beu 1998).

2010, John Wesley Tunnell, Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells, page 183:

The genus name is a good descriptor of the shells of personids, most of which are moderately to severely distorted.

2014, M. G. Harasewych, The Book of Shells: A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells:

(zoology) Any member of the family Personidae of molluscs.


phyllidiid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Phyllidiidae.


physid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail of the family Physidae.


pilid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ampullariidae (syn. Pilidae) of apple snails.


planaxid

(zoology) Any sea snail of the family Planaxidae.


planorbid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Planorbidae.


peraclid

(zoology) Any sea butterfly in the family Peraclidae.


platyceratid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Platyceratidae.


pleurotomariid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pleurotomariidae.


pleurobranchid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Pleurobranchidae.


pleurodontid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Pleurodontidae.


pneumodermatid

(zoology) Any sea angel in the family Pneumodermatidae.


pleurocerid

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(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pleuroceridae.


polyceratid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Polyceratidae.


polycerid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Polyceridae.


polygyrid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Polygyridae.


pomatiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pomatiidae.


potamidid

(zoology) Any member of the family Potamididae of gastropods.


porcelliid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Porcelliidae.


poteriid

(zoology) Any member of the family Poteriidae, now family Neocyclotidae, of snails.


pomatiopsid

Borrowed from translingual Pomatiopsidae.

(zoology) Any member of the family Pomatiopsidae of saline lake gastropods.


procerithiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Procerithiidae.


proserpinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Proserpinidae.


pseudococculinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pseudococculinidae.


pseudophorid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Pseudophoridae.


pseudomelaniid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Pseudomelaniidae.


pterotracheid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pterotracheidae.


pupinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pupinidae.


punctid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Punctidae.


purpurinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Purpurinidae.


pugnellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pugnellidae, synonym of family Aporrhaidae.


pupillid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Pupillidae.


pseudozygopleurid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pseudozygopleuridae.


pyramidellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pyramidellidae.


pyropeltid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Pyropeltidae.


raphistomatid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod of the family Raphistomatidae.


rathouisiid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Rathouisiidae.


ranellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ranellidae; a triton.


rastodentid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Rastodentidae.


retusid

(zoology) Any member of the family Retusidae of gastropods.


rhodopid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Rhodopidae.


rhytidid

(zoology) Any predatory snail in the family Rhytididae.


ringiculid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Ringiculidae.


rissoellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Rissoellidae.


runcinid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Runcinidae.


scaphandrid

(zoology) Any in the family Scaphandridae of sea snails.


umbraculid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Umbraculidae.


urocoptid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Urocoptidae.


urocyclid

(zoology) Any slug or snail in the family Urocyclidae.


valvatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Valvatidae.


valloniid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Valloniidae.


vanikorid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Vanikoridae.


vertiginid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Vertiginidae.


vasid

(zoology) Any member of family Vasidae of snails.


vaginulid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Vaginulidae, a synonym of the Veronicellidae.


velutinid

(zoology) Any of the gastropods in the family Velutinidae.


volutomitrid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Volutomitridae.


vitrinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Vitrinidae of land snails and slugs.


volutid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Volutidae, the volutes.


volvatellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Volvatellidae.


scissurellid

(zoology) Any in the family Scissurellidae of gastropods.


scyllaeid

(zoology) Any in the family Scyllaeidae of sea slugs.


viviparid

(zoology) Any member of the family Viviparidae of river snails.