Word Meanings - GLASS-SNAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

Related words: (words related to GLASS-SNAIL)

• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SNAIL
  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. 4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• SNAIL-PACED
  Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SNAIL-LIKE
  Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• SNAILFISH
  See
• VITRINA
  A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent, very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• SUBTRANSPARENT
  Not perfectly transparent.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• WATER SNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• SEA SNAIL
  A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
• 'SNAILS
  God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.