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Seasnail

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of sea snail (“shelled marine gastropod mollusk”). alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks, tritons, moon shells, neritids wordnet
  3. 3
    The snailfish (family Liparidae).
  4. 4
    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”). The fish name likely a clipping of seasnail(fish).

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