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| abalone |
a large sea snail that has several shiny colors on the inside of its shell. Abalone are mollusks. People eat abalone meat and make decorations from the shells. |
| cochleate |
shaped or twisted in a spiral, like a snail shell. |
| gastropod |
any of a wide variety of mollusks, such as the snail or limpet, usu. having a large muscular organ for creeping. [1/2 definitions] |
| pagurid |
any of a family of marine crustaceans that have a soft abdomen and live in empty snail shells; hermit crab. [1/2 definitions] |
| slug1 |
any of various small, slimy land animals related to the snail but having no shell. [1/5 definitions] |
| Triton |
(l.c.) the shell of such a snail. [1/4 definitions] |
| whorl |
a single coil of a spiral shell, as of a snail. [1/4 definitions] |
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