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snail

[snayl] / sneɪl /
NOUN
mollusk
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Then we slowly snail pace across PCH, and go over Topanga Canyon to get back into the Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Two newly identified snail species have expanded the known diversity of European land snails.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Several British zoos are setting up so-called ark populations of the glutinous snail, one of Europe's rarest species, using creatures bred in a back garden in Ceredigion.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

With years of data showing that people will rent and watch just about anything, Netflix was free to make a home for all the bombs and duds that it previously offered via snail mail.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Fred found a moon snail with a shell the size of a baseball.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

They were the first invertebrates -- a broad group of animals including spiders, snails and worms -- shown to use celestial navigation for such long trips.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The venom peptides that snakes and snails use are built as closed loops, which is what lets them survive intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Researchers encountered the snails at several locations while working in the region's rugged mountain terrain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Since 2014, under licence from Natural Resources Wales, Hughes has been wading into the lake to collect and study the snails.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mama Joe called her “nwanyi oma,” although she was not pretty at all, and I imagined the snails fried to a crisp, warped corpses floating in the womans soup pot.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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