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Definition: edible snail
edible snail
n : one of the chief edible snails [syn:
Helix pomatia]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Edible snail
Snail
\Snail\ (sn[=a]l), n. [OE. snaile, AS. sn[ae]gel, snegel,
sn[ae]gl; akin to G. schnecke, OHG. snecko, Dan. snegl, Icel.
snigill.]
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial
air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix
and many allied genera of the family
Helicid[ae].
They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world
except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on
vegetation; a land snail.
(b) Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true
snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See
Pond snail, under
Pond, and
Sea snail.
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2. Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
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3. (Mech.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally
curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the
position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a
striking clock.
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4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to
protect besiegers; a testudo. [Obs.]
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They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . .
that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or
of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow
pavises and targets, under the which men, when they
fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail
is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.
--Vegetius
(Trans.).
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5. (Bot.) The pod of the sanil clover.
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Ear snail,
Edible snail,
Pond snail, etc. See under
Ear,
Edible, etc.
Snail borer (Zo["o]l.), a boring univalve mollusk; a drill.
Snail clover (Bot.), a cloverlike plant (
Medicago scuttellata
, also,
M. Helix); -- so named from its
pods, which resemble the shells of snails; -- called also
snail trefoil,
snail medic, and
beehive.
Snail flower (Bot.), a leguminous plant (
Phaseolus Caracalla
) having the keel of the carolla spirally coiled
like a snail shell.
Snail shell (Zo["o]l.), the shell of snail.
Snail trefoil. (Bot.) See
Snail clover, above.
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Edible
\Ed"i*ble\, a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See
Eat.]
Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible
fishes. --Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.
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Edible bird's nest. See
Bird's nest, 2.
Edible crab (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food,
esp. the American blue crab (
Callinectes hastatus). See
Crab.
Edible frog (Zo["o]l.), the common European frog (
Rana esculenta
), used as food.
Edible snail (Zo["o]l.), any snail used as food, esp.
Helix pomatia and
H. aspersa of Europe.
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