snail mail
— Noun
– English
~ any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service; "email is much faster than snail mail"
snail butter
— Noun
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~ for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley
snail-flower
— Noun
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~ perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
snail
— Noun
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~ edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
snail
— Noun
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~ freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
snail bean
— Noun
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~ perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
snail
— Verb
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~ gather snails; "We went snailing in the summer"
snailfish
— Noun
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~ small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
snailflower
— Noun
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~ perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
sea snake
— Noun
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~ any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom
sand snake
— Noun
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~ small North American burrowing snake
snake oil
— Noun
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~ (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless
snake doctor
— Noun
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~ slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
smooth green snake
— Noun
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~ of western and central United States
snake eyes
— Noun
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~ expressions used when when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot
Snake
— Noun
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~ a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
snake-fish
— Noun
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~ tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
snake fern
— Noun
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~ tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida
snake
— Noun
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~ limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
Snake
— Noun
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~ a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition