snail
noun
any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
snaillike
-
a word derived from
snail.
Example Sentences
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The following day he resumed his snaillike pace, crawling out of the fertile valley to the grasslands beyond, and so on and on until the night found him in the salt pan and the alkali.
From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter
