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snail
 
Noun snail has 2 senses
  1. snail - freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
    --1 is a kind of     gastropod, univalve
    --1 has particulars: scorpion shell; edible snail, Helix pomatia; garden snail
    Derived form: verb snail1
  2. escargot, snail - edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
    --2 is a kind of meat
    --2 is a substance of edible snail, Helix pomatia
    Derived form: verb snail1
Verb snail has 1 sense
  1. snail - gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
    --1 is one way to     gather, garner, collect, pull together
    Derived forms: noun snail2, noun snail1
    Sample sentence:
    In the summer they like to go out and snail
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