seasnail
any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
any of several marine gastropods having a spirally coiled shell, as a whelk.
Origin of seasnail
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How to use seasnail in a sentence
Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
The $1-Billion-a-Year Right-Wing Conspiracy You Haven’t Heard Of | Jay Michaelson | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.
Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna | Jimmy So | April 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAt least eighty per cent of the possible oyster crop is destroyed by this sea-snail.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerIt is sometimes called the sea snail, and is found on the marine grass in harbours, as well as in the open sea.
Beautiful Shells of New Zealand | E. G. B. MossThese shrimps, and the little hermit-crab, and the buccinum (a small black sea-snail) are Nature's house-cleaners.
Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 | Various
So he always tucks it away in an empty shell like that of a whelk or a sea-snail, which he drags about with him wherever he goes!
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore Wood
British Dictionary definitions for sea snail
any small spiny-finned fish of the family Liparidae, esp Liparis liparis, of cold seas, having a soft scaleless tadpole-shaped body with the pelvic fins fused into a sucker: Also called: snailfish
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