noun
1. small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
• Syn: ↑snailfish, ↑sea snail, ↑Liparis liparis
• Hypernyms: ↑scorpaenoid, ↑scorpaenoid fish
• Member Holonyms: ↑Liparis, ↑genus Liparis
2. any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids
• Hyponyms:
↑neritid, ↑neritid gastropod, ↑whelk, ↑triton, ↑moon shell, ↑moonshell, ↑periwinkle, ↑winkle, ↑limpet
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/see"snayl'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) seasnail, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) seasnails.
1. any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
2. any of several marine gastropods having a spirally coiled shell, as a whelk.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.