sea snail (redirected from Sea snails)

sea snail

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Any of various marine gastropods, such as a periwinkle, having a spiral shell.

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sea snail

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) 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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Noun

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sea snail - small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish Liparis liparis, seasnail, snailfish scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates genus Liparis, Liparis - type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes