snails
Spiral-shelled crawlers
Snails are slow-moving mollusks that carry coiled shells on their backs, found in gardens, freshwater, and the sea.
Their sluggish pace makes them symbols of slowness: Traffic moved at a snail's pace.
Edible land snails, prepared with garlic butter, are the French delicacy escargot.
Snail mail is postal service, contrasted with faster electronic communication.
Single-shelled soft creature
- shellHard outer covering
- tentaclesFlexible grasping appendages
- footLeg's lowest part
- mantleCovering or wrap
radula · hermaphrodite · eggs · mucus · terrestrial · aquatic · freshwater · marine
Thick wet gunk
- mucusProtective bodily secretion
- silveryPale metallic sheen
- glisteningReflecting light softly
- pathRoute for traveling
track · secretion · moisture · residue · sticky · iridescent · dried · morning
Hard outer covering
- whorlSpiral arrangement of ridges
- coilingLooping around repeatedly
- helixSpiraling three-dimensional curve
- curveSmooth, angleless line
golden ratio · logarithmic · clockwise · counterclockwise · sinistral · dextral · apex · spire
Speed of movement
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- creepingMoving slowly, stealthily
- leisurelyDone without urgency
- ploddingMoving slowly, heavily
unhurried · gradual · sluggish · dawdling · meandering · tortoise · sloth · patient
Cultivated plant area
- lettuceLeafy salad vegetable
- cabbageLeafy vegetable head
- hostasShade-tolerant ornamental perennials
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
damage · holes · nibbling · slug · pellets · organic · nighttime · rainy
Of or from Paris's nation
- cuisineCharacteristic cooking style
- appetizerLight dish preceding main
- garlicPungent culinary bulb
- butterSolid fat from cream
herbs · parsley · gourmet · delicacy · restaurant · dining · bourguignonne · tongs
Struggle for supremacy
- bettingStaking money on outcomes
- oddsLikelihood expressed numerically
- trackPath or monitored route
- finish lineRace completion marker
contestant · humorous · novelty · pub · fair · fundraiser · lane · champion
gastropod
Single-shelled soft creature
mantle · radula · hermaphrodite · eggs · mucus · terrestrial · aquatic · freshwater · marine · invertebrate
slime
Thick wet gunk
- mucusProtective bodily secretion
- silveryPale metallic sheen
- glisteningReflecting light softly
path · track · secretion · moisture · residue · sticky · iridescent · dried · morning · sidewalk
shell
Hard outer covering
- whorlSpiral arrangement of ridges
- coilingLooping around repeatedly
- helixSpiraling three-dimensional curve
curve · golden ratio · logarithmic · clockwise · counterclockwise · sinistral · dextral · apex · spire · volute
pace
Speed of movement
plodding · unhurried · gradual · sluggish · dawdling · meandering · tortoise · sloth · patient · deliberate
garden
Cultivated plant area
seedlings · damage · holes · nibbling · slug · pellets · organic · nighttime · rainy · infestation
French
Of or from Paris's nation
butter · herbs · parsley · gourmet · delicacy · restaurant · dining · bourguignonne · tongs · shells
competition
Struggle for supremacy
finish line · contestant · humorous · novelty · pub · fair · fundraiser · lane · champion · spectators
- forest ecosystemtrees, shrubs, bark, fungi, mushrooms
- invertebratesinvertebrate, arthropod, arthropods, mollusk, crustacean
- marine invertebratescrabs, lobsters, shrimp, clams, mussels
- mollusksclams, mollusk, mollusks, mussels, clam
- plant-eatersherbivores, grazers, browsers, cows, horses
- tide pooltide pools, shells, crabs, starfish, sea urchins
snailscheetahs
Fastest land mammals
hares · peregrine falcons · gazelles · racehorses · falcons
- snail's paceExtremely slow movement
- snail mailPhysical letter delivery
- slow as a snailExtremely leisurely in movement
- sea snailSaltwater gastropod mollusk
- snail paceExtremely slow movement
- edible snailsGastropods prepared for consumption