ramshorn snail

/ (ˈræmzˌhɔːn) /

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noun

any of various freshwater snails of the genus Planorbis that are widely used in aquariums

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How to use ramshorn snail in a sentence

Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
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The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.
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The way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.
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The green damp hung upon the low walls, and the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light; but all was still as death.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens

They were well-to-do folk and, according to Cesar Birotteau who knew them, old man Crottat was as "close as a snail."
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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Aye, there it was, slowly winding up the steep white road, on which it seemed to move at a snail's pace.
Ruth|Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
And in some respects that something that looked so very much like a railway resembled not so much a snail as a snake.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions