snail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 snāl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
    — ‘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. […]’
  2. A slow person; a sluggard. broadly,informal
  3. 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.
  4. A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers. historical
  5. The pod of the snail clover.
  6. A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
动词 v.
  1. To move or travel very slowly.
    — The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.

词形变化

snails plural snails present,singular,third-person snailing participle,present snailed participle,past snailed past

词汇关系

衍生词
achatine snail African snail agate snail amber snail ambersnail apple snail Australian snail awl snail Badwater snail bonnet snail boulder snail bristle snail brown-lipped snail brown snail bubble snail Burgundy snail carrier snail Chinese hat snail cinnamon snail cone snail decollate snail dew snail domed land snail door snail ear snail edible snail emerald green snail Finger Snail flying snail garden snail giant snail glass snail green snail grove snail harp snail helmet snail housesnail Japanese snail land snail Lister's river snail looping snail microsnail milk snail moon snail Moorean viviparous tree snail mudsnail mud snail murex snail mystery snail Newcomb's snail olive snail palm-leaf snail pebblesnail Polynesian tree snail pond snail purple storm snail rack and snail ramshorn snail river snail rocksnail Roman snail scaly-foot snail seasnail sea snail shoulderband snail slow as a snail slug snail slugsnail snailase snailborne snail butter snail darter snailery snail fever snailfish snailflower snailicide snailish snail king snail kite snailless snaillike snail mail snail-mail snail-sense feminism snailshell snail's pace snail pace snail-paced snail syrup snail trail snail trefoil snail vine snail-wheel snaily Snark strawberry snail top snail tulip snail turban snail Utah roundmouth snail valve snail violet snail volcano snail water snail white-lipped snail white snail whorl snail wing snail wood snail zombie snail
相关词
heliciculture slug

词源

词源 1
From Middle English snayl, snail, 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.
词源 2
From Middle English snayl, snail, 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.
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