water snail
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of water snail
First recorded in 1555–65
Example Sentences
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Its larvae is excreted, and sets up house in a water snail.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2012
Of two kinds of water snail found in the Thames, and among the commonest molluscs, one is a vegetable feeder.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
It was just what it seemed to be, the shell of a water snail.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
It is nothing but the cast off shell of a water snail.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher
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