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Definition of Snailery
1. a place where snails are bred [n SNAILERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snailery
Literary usage of Snailery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"... BALANCED AQUARIUM AND THE snailery A PRACTICABLE WAY TO STUDY MOLLUSKS ALIVE
IN YOUR OWN HOME ABOUT fifty years ago a young lady up in Vermont took home ..."
2. Friends Worth Knowing: Glimpses of American Natural History by Ernest Ingersoll (1881)
"... whom I show the little land and fresh-water mollusks in my snailery either
start back with an " Oh! the horrid things!" which causes me some amusement, ..."
3. The Conchologist by John Warren (1834)
"Dr. Townson was shown, at Eylau, a snailery, which the proprietor informed him
was constructed on an improved plan. In our island, he says, this might have ..."
4. Animal Biography, Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy by William Bingley (1803)
"Dr. Townson was shewn at Erlau a snailery, which the proprietor informed him was
constructed on an improved plan. In our island, he says, this might have ..."
5. Time's Telescope for ...; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack (1823)
"In our island, he says, this might have had the denomination of a Patent snailery,
or Philosophical Snail-sty. It consisted only of a large hole, ..."
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