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Sea snail

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any saltwater snail; a marine gastropod mollusk with a shell (contrasted with sea slug).
  2. 2
    small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish wordnet

Etymology

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”).

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