snail | freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell |
edible snail Helix pomatia | one of the chief edible snails |
garden snail | any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix, often destructive pests |
brown snail Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
conenose cone-nosed bug conenose bug big bedbug kissing bug | large bloodsucking bug |
snail darter Percina tanasi | a small snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River |
snailfish seasnail sea snail Liparis liparis | small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker, related to lumpfish |
cone | any cone-shaped artifact |
cone clutch cone friction clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone-shaped |
nose cone ogive | front consisting of the conical head of a missile or rocket that protects the payload from heat during its passage through the atmosphere |
pyrometric cone | a pyrometer consisting of a series of cones that melt at different temperatures |
cone cone cell retinal cone | a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color |
snail mail | any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service, email is much faster than snail mail |
storm cone | a canvas cone hoisted to warn of high winds |
windsock wind sock sock air sock air-sleeve wind sleeve wind cone drogue | a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast, used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind |
iceream cone | ice cream in a crisp conical wafer |
cinnamon roll cinnamon bun cinnamon snail | rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking |
escargot snail | edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic |
snail butter | for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley |
alluvial fan alluvial cone | a fan-shaped deposit where a fast flowing stream flattens out |
cone strobilus strobile | cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts |
fir cone | the seed-producing cone of a fir tree |
snailflower snail-flower snail flower snail bean corkscrew flower Vigna caracalla Phaseolus caracalla | 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 |
cone pepper Capsicum annuum conoides | plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits, sometimes grown as an ornamental |
cone conoid cone shape | a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point |
element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
truncated cone | a frustum formed from a cone |
snail | gather snails, We went snailing in the summer |
cone | make cone-shaped, cone a tire |
coniferous cone-bearing | of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves |
conic conical conelike cone-shaped | relating to or resembling a cone, conical mountains, conelike fruit |