Pronunciation: (sē'snāl"), [key]
—pl. (esp. collectively) -snail, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) -snails.
1. any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
2. any of several marine gastropods having a spirally coiled shell, as a whelk.
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