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.

(informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.


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


globe

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


tun

tuns (plural)
tunne (alternative obsolete)
tonne (alternative obsolete)

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.


tun

tuns (plural)
tunob (plural)
tunne (alternative obsolete)
tonne (alternative obsolete)

A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.


whelk

whelks (plural)
welk (alternative)
whilk (alternative)
wilk (alternative)

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


vertigo

en-noun

vertigo (countable and uncountable, plural vertigos or vertigoes)


escargot

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.


white-lipped snail

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.


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.


scungilli

scungilli (countable and uncountable, plural scungillis or scungilli)

scungillis (plural)
scungilli (plural)
scungile (alternative)
scungille (alternative)
scungili (alternative)

(US) Whelk, especially when prepared as food.


siphonariid

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


great ramshorn

Planorbarius corneus, a freshwater air-breathing snail


land snail

land snails (plural)
land-snail (alternative)
landsnail (alternative)

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.).


achatina

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


physa

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


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.


hodmandod

hodmandods (plural)
hodmadod (alternative)
hodmedod (alternative)
hodneydod (alternative)

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.


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

Yt is as great pyte to se a woman wepe / As yt is to se a sely dodman crepe, / Or, as ye wold say, a sely goose go barefote.

1538, John Bale, Kynge Johan; published as J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Kynge Johan. A Play in Two Parts. […], London: Printed for the Camden Society […], 1838, →OCLC, page 7:

Dodman […] In that a Snayl or Dodman, which is not only not warm, but to our feeling very cold, is fain to brood its as cold sweaty eggs, nested upon a cold wet earth, bespewing them about with the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty weather, and all making way to a kind and timely hatching.

1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, S[amuel] P[arker], A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World: […], London: Printed for Robert Boulter …, →OCLC, page 125; quoted in John Greaves Nall, “A Glossary of East Anglian Provincialisms. […]”, in An Etymological and Comparative Glossary of the Dialect and Provincialisms of East Anglia, with Illustrations Derived from Native Authors, London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1866, →OCLC, page 542:

A snail is also called Dodman in Suffolk and Norfolk.

[1823, Edward Moor, “Hodmandod”, in Suffolk Words and Phrases; or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms of that County, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Printed by J. Loder, for R. Hunter […], →OCLC, page 174:

"[...] I'm a reg'lar Dodman, I am," said Mr. Peggotty, by which he meant snail, and this was his allusion to being slow to go, for he had attempted to go after every sentence, and had somehow or other come back again; "but I wish you both well, and I wish you happy!"

1850 November 14, Charles Dickens, “My ‘First Half’ at Salem House”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, →OCLC; republished as The Personal History of David Copperfield. … In Three Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 175), Tauchniz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchniz, 1850, →OCLC, page 144:


acavid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Acavidae.


amastrid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amastridae.


zygopleurid

(zoology) Any member of the Zygopleuridae.


amphibolid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Amphibolidae.


ampullariid

(zoology) Any member of the Ampullariidae.


annulariid

(zoology) Any member of the family Annulariidae.


bothriembryontid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Bothriembryontidae.


bradybaenid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Bradybaenidae.


bulimulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Bulimulidae.


camaenid

(zoology) Any land snail of the family Camaenidae.


carychiid

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


caryodid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Caryodidae.


cerionid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Cerionidae.


charopid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Charopidae.


chondrinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Chondrinidae.


clausiliid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Clausiliidae.


corillid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Corillidae.


cyclophorid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Cyclophoridae.


discid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Discidae.


ellobiid

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


elonid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Elonidae.


endodontid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Endodontidae.


enid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Enidae.


euconulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Euconulidae.


ferussaciid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Ferussaciidae.


helicarionid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicarionidae.


helicid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicidae.


helicinid

(zoology) Any snails in the family Helicinidae.


helicodiscid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Helicodiscidae.


helminthoglyptid

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


hydrocenid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hydrocenidae.


hygromiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hygromiidae.


latiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Latiidae.


lauriid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Lauriidae.


lymnaeid

(zoology) Any pond snail in the family Lymnaeidae.


maizaniid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Maizaniidae.


megaspirid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Megaspiridae.


oleacinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Oleacinidae.


orculid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Orculidae.


oreohelicid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Oreohelicidae.


pachychilid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Pachychilidae.


partulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Partulidae.


physid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail of the family Physidae.


pilid

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


planorbid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Planorbidae.


pleurodontid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Pleurodontidae.


polygyrid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Polygyridae.


proserpinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Proserpinidae.


punctid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Punctidae.


pupillid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Pupillidae.


rhytidid

(zoology) Any predatory snail in the family Rhytididae.


urocoptid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Urocoptidae.


urocyclid

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


valloniid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Valloniidae.


vertiginid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Vertiginidae.


vitrinid

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


spiraxid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Spiraxidae.


streptaxid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Streptaxidae.


strobilopsid

(zoology)Any snail in the family Strobilopsidae.


strophocheilid

(zoology)Any snail in the family Strophocheilidae.


subulinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Subulinidae, which may be instead the achatinid subfamily Subulininae.


succineid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Succineidae.


systrophiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Systrophiidae, now considered to be part of the Scolodontidae.


trochomorphid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Trochomorphidae.


Midas's ear

Ellobium aurismidae, a pulmonate mollusk.


dart sac

A sac connected with the reproductive organs of certain land snails, containing a love dart.


domed land snail

en-noun

domed land snail (plural domed land snails)

a small cave-dwelling land snail of species Zospeum tholussum (family Carychiidae), discovered in 2013 in caves in Croatia.


decollate snail

decollate snail (plural decollate snails)

A European predatory snail of species Rumina decollata, used for biological control of other snails and slugs


ramshorn snail

Any member of the Planorbidae, a family of freshwater pulmonate molluscs whose shells are shaped like a ram's horn.


buliminid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Buliminidae.


shellika pooka

/ˈʃɛlɪkə ˈpuːkə/


emerald green snail

emerald green snail (plural emerald green snails)

A large arboreal snail of species Papustyla pulcherrima (family Camaenidae), of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, with a bright green shell sometimes used as jewellery.


mudalia

In many places, it co-exists with a local form of Mudalia, in those cases showing a somewhat greater tendency to occur on the sandy stream bed than on rocks, which the mudalia seems to prefer.

1996, Richard L. Hoffman, “Occurrence of the Costate Riversnail, Oxytrema catenaria (Say), in Virginia (Gastropodad: Pleuroceridae)”, in Banisteria, number 7:

Common names for various kinds in this family include elimias, hornsnails, mudalias, and rocksnails.

2002, J. Reese Voshell, A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America, page 216:

Any of several species of freshwater snails, included in the genus Leptoxis.


black mudalia

Leptoxis melanoides, a freshwater snail endemic to the Black Warrior River system of Alabama in the United States.


knob mudalia

Leptoxis minor, a freshwater snail endemic to the United States.


crested mudalia

crested mudalia (plural crested mudalia)

Leptoxis carinata, a freshwater snail endemic to the northeastern United States.


seep mudalia

Leptoxis dilatata, a freshwater snail endemic to the eastern United States.


Arkansas mudalia

Arkansas mudalia (plural Arkansas mudalia)

Leptoxis arkansensis, a freshwater snail endemic to Arkansas in the United States.


smooth mudalia

smooth rocksnail
smooth rocksnail#English


European physa

European physa (plural European physas or European physae)

European physas (plural)
European physae (plural)

Physella acuta (or Physa acuta), a freshwater snail endemic to Europe and North America.


tadpole physa

tadpole physa (plural tadpole physas or tadpole physae)

tadpole physas (plural)
tadpole physae (plural)

Physella gyrina (or Physa gyrina), a freshwater snail endemic to North America.


Banff Springs physa

Banff Springs physa (plural Banff Springs physas or Banff Springs physae)

Banff Springs physas (plural)
Banff Springs physae (plural)

Physella johnsoni (or Physa johnsoni), a freshwater snail endemic to a small number of hot springs in Alberta, Canada.


banded physa

banded physa (plural banded physas or banded physae)

banded physas (plural)
banded physae (plural)

Physella vinosa (or Physa vinosa), a freshwater snail endemic to North America.


bayou physa

bayou physa (plural bayou physas or bayou physae)

bayou physas (plural)
bayou physae (plural)

Physella hendersoni (or Physa hendersoni), a freshwater snail endemic to the southeastern United States.


broadshoulder physa

broadshoulder physa (plural broadshoulder physas or broadshoulder physae)

broadshoulder physas (plural)
broadshoulder physae (plural)

Physella parkeri (or Physa parkeri), a freshwater snail endemic to North America.


Carib physa

Carib physa (plural Carib physas or Carib physae)

Carib physas (plural)
Carib physae (plural)

Physella cubiensis (or Physa cubiensis), a freshwater snail endemic to South America.


cave physa

cave physa (plural cave physas or cave physae)

cave physas (plural)
cave physae (plural)

Physella spelunca (or Physa spelunca), a freshwater snail endemic to Lower Cane Cave in Wyoming, United States.


Cayuse physa

Cayuse physa (plural Cayuse physas or Cayuse physae)

Cayuse physas (plural)
Cayuse physae (plural)

Physella osculans (or Physa osculans), a freshwater snail endemic to the southwestern United States.


Comanche physa

Comanche physa (plural Comanche physas or Comanche physae)

Comanche physas (plural)
Comanche physae (plural)

Physella bottimeri (syn. Physa bottimeri), a freshwater snail endemic to the southern United States.


corkscrew physa

corkscrew physa (plural corkscrew physas or corkscrew physae)

corkscrew physas (plural)
corkscrew physae (plural)

Physella humerosa (or Physa humerosa), a freshwater snail endemic to the southwestern United States.


desert physa

desert physa (plural desert physas or desert physae)

desert physas (plural)
desert physae (plural)

From desert + translingual Physa boucardi.

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Physa boucardi</i>

Physella boucardi (or Physa boucardi), a freshwater snail endemic to the southwestern United States.


Fish Lake physa

en-noun

Fish Lake physa (plural Fish Lake physas or Fish Lake physae)

Fish Lake physas (plural)
Fish Lake physae (plural)

Any member of species †Physella microstriata, now †Physella gyrina, of extinct freshwater snails endemic to Fish Lake in Utah, United States.


Great Lakes physa

Great Lakes physa (plural Great Lakes physas or Great Lakes physae)

Great Lakes physas (plural)
Great Lakes physae (plural)

Physella magnalacustris (or Physa magnalacustris), a freshwater snail endemic to the Great Lakes of North America.


Lake Winnipeg physa

Lake Winnipeg physa (plural Lake Winnipeg physas or Lake Winnipeg physae)

Lake Winnipeg physas (plural)
Lake Winnipeg physae (plural)

Physella winnipegensis (or Physa winnipegensis), a freshwater snail endemic to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada.


hotwater physa

hotwater physa (plural hotwater physas or hotwater physae)

hotwater physas (plural)
hotwater physae (plural)

Physella wrighti (or Physa wrighti), a freshwater snail endemic to a small number of hot springs in northern British Columbia, Canada.


grain physa

grain physa (plural grain physas or grain physae)

grain physas (plural)
grain physae (plural)

Physella hordacea (or Physa hordacea), a freshwater snail endemic to the northwestern United States.


globose physa

globose physa (plural globose physas or globose physae)

globose physas (plural)
globose physae (plural)

Physella globosa (or Physa globosa), a freshwater snail endemic to the eastern United States.


snail king

Calque of German Schneckenkönig (“snail king”)

cal

In German-speaking countries, there is a legend that a left-handed snail specimen is a “snail king” — Schneckenkönig.

2016, Øyvind Hammer, The Perfect Shape: Spiral Stories, page 30:

Virtually, almost all snail shells wind in the clockwise direction (mathematically negative) when viewed from above. This is not the case with the "snail king".

2017, Georg Glaeser, Math Tools: 500+ Applications in Science and Arts, page 330:

(rare) A snail possessing a sinistral shell, from a species in which dextral shells are the norm.


apple snail

Any of the large freshwater snails of the family Ampullariidae, some of which are the size of an apple.


glass snail

Certain land snails in family Vitrinidae, having shells of an especially glassy texture, especially genus Vitrina.


door snail

Any land snail of the family Clausiliidae


mountainsnail

Any of a number of species of land snails in the genus Oreohelix.


strawberry snail

en-noun

strawberry snail (plural strawberry snails)

A reddish-brown snail of species Trochulus striolatus.


mystery snail

Any river snail of the family Viviparidae.


abyssochrysid

Clipping of translingual Abyssochrysidae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Abyssochrysidae</i>

Any sea snail of the family Abyssochrysidae


ambersnail

Any of the genus Oxyloma of air-breathing land snails.


ampullarid

Any of the family Ampullariidae of apple snails.


xanthonychid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Xanthonychidae.


pond snail

Any of a number of other snails typically found in small bodies of fresh water.


Polynesian tree snail

en-noun

Polynesian tree snail (plural Polynesian tree snails)

Any snail of many species of arboreal land snails of the genera Partula and Somoana, family Partulidae, inhabiting Pacific islands.


yoka star turban

yoka star turban (plural yoka star turbans)

Guildfordia yoka, a species of deepwater sea snail.


elephant's snout volute

elephant's snout volute (plural elephant's snout volutes)


Moorean viviparous tree snail

Moorean viviparous tree snail (plural Moorean viviparous tree snails)

†Partula mirabilis, a species of snail that is extinct in the wild.


netted olive

Oliva reticularis, a species of sea snail.


obtuse horn shell

obtuse horn shell (plural obtuse horn shells)

Cerithidea obtusa, a species of sea snail.


waxy screw shell

waxy screw shell (plural waxy screw shells)

Turritella capensis, a species of South African sea snail.


pyramid elimia

From pyramid + elimia, (genericized form of genus name Elimia).

Elimia potosiensis, a species of elimia snail.


Lister's river snail

Lister's river snail (plural Lister's river snails)

Lister's river snail (Viviparus contectus)—a large freshwater species with a striped shell, which survives in lakes in Britain today—gives us a good idea of how its ancient relatives looked and lived.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 82:

A large freshwater snail of species Viviparus contectus.


shoulderband snail

shoulderband snail (plural shoulderband snails)

A land snail of the genus Helminthoglypta.


slitmouth

A terrestrial snail of the eastern US, of genus Stenotrema.


pillsnail

A terrestrial snail of the eastern US, genus Euchemotrema.


liptooth

A North American terrestrial snail of the genus Daedalochila or Linisa.


whorl snail

A terrestrial snail of the family Vertiginidae.


partula

Polynesian tree snail
Polynesian tree snail

Any of the Polynesian tree snails of the genus Partula, family Partulidae.


bristle snail

An Australian land snail of the genus Austrochloritis.


Roman snail

Helix pomatia
Helix pomatia#Translingual

A land snail of species Helix pomatia, the most commonly eaten species in European cuisine.


dusky nerite

A freshwater snail of species Neritina pulligera in the family Neritidae.