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Definition of Sea snail

1. Noun. Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish.

Medical Definition of Sea snail

1. A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Snail

Literary usage of Sea snail

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1878)
"sea snail: see LUMP FISH, X. 714, 1 ab. SEA SNIPE : see BELLOWS FISH, and PIPE FISH, XIII. 537, 1 a. Seasoning, of wood, XVI. 704, 1 a. SEASONS, XIV. ..."

2. The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism by Schmidt (Eduard Oskar) (1875)
"These ciliated lobes or vela, merging into one another, are shown on the left in the larva of a sea-snail ..."

3. An Elementary Course in Practical Zoölogy by Buel Preston Colton (1898)
"Sea-snail. Dry. New England coast 2 73. Purpura. Sea-snail. Dry. New England coast 10 74. ... Sea-snail. Ale. New England coast 3 75. Nerita. Sea-snail. ..."

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