snail 的定义
- any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, having a spirally coiled shell and a ventral muscular foot on which it slowly glides about.
- a slow or lazy person; sluggard.
- Machinery. a cam having the form of a spiral.
- Midwestern and Western U.S. a sweet roll in spiral form, especially a cinnamon roll or piece of Danish pastry.
snail 近义词
等同于 slowpoke
等同于 mollusk
等同于 shellfish
等同于 sluggard
更多snail例句
- Reader Orlando Saint-Sebastien was surprised to learn that snails have tongues and asked how sticky they are.
- They had the same shape as venom proteins from spiders and cone snails, Vetter says.
- She put the snails in her water tunnel and observed how well they were able to cling to different surfaces.
- After Glanzman’s team administered a “reminder” shock to the snails, the researchers were surprised to quickly notice different, newer synaptic connections growing between the neurons.
- With it, researchers have edited genes in a wide variety of animals, including dogs, mice, snails, cows and mosquitoes.
- Most days, I might as well be studying some obscure species of sea snail.
- The Daily Pic: James Nares slows Manhattan's rat race to a snail's pace.
- The way to understand memory processing is not through Marcel Proust, as Kandel discovered in the 1960s, but through a sea snail.
- The green damp hung upon the low walls, and the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light; but all was still as death.
- They were well-to-do folk and, according to Cesar Birotteau who knew them, old man Crottat was as "close as a snail."
- As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Aye, there it was, slowly winding up the steep white road, on which it seemed to move at a snail's pace.
- And in some respects that something that looked so very much like a railway resembled not so much a snail as a snake.