Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aquatic pulmonate gastropod; a pond-snail, as a limneid, or one of many similar snails. See cuts under
Limnæa and Limnædæ. - noun The Archimedean screw.
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Examples
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After that, the Blue-eyed Girl showed him a little water-snail.
Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim
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Now each egg has a sort of lid, which presently opens and lets out a minute, hairy creature who swims away in search of a particular kind of water-snail -- the kind called by naturalists _Limnoea truncatula_.
The Eye of Osiris 1902
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Some fasten together fragments of water-weeds and plant refuse, others take tiny particles of stone, of which they make firmly compacted walls, others again lay hold of water-snail shells, which may even contain live inhabitants, and bind these into a limy rampart behind which their bodies are in safe hiding.
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It was the only water in our part of the country where the large water-snail was found, and the snails had brought the bird that feeds on them -- the large social marsh hawk, a slate-coloured bird resembling a buzzard in its size and manner of flight.
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