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  2. Snail - Wikipedia

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    A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract

  3. From ‘Basic’ to ‘Boujee,’ Here Are 29 Gen Z Slang Terms To ...

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    Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...

  4. Retronym - Wikipedia

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    In the 1990s, when the Internet became widely popular and email accounts' instant delivery common, mail carried by the postal service came to be called "snail mail" for its slower delivery and email sometimes just "mail." [citation needed] Advances in technology and science are often responsible for the coinage of retronyms.

  5. Gastropoda - Wikipedia

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    Snail families that contain fungivore species include Clausiliidae, [30] Macrocyclidae, [31] and Polygyridae. [32] Mushroom-producing fungi used as a food source by snails and slugs include species from several genera. Some examples are milk-caps (Lactarius spp.), the oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), and the penny bun.

  6. Glossary of gastropod terms - Wikipedia

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    Equidistant – Equally spaced, as the spiral lines on some snail shells. [1] Equilibrating – Balancing equally. [1] Eroded – Worn away, as the epidermis on some shells. [1] Erosive – Capable of erosion. [1] Excavated – Hollowed out, as the columella of some snails. [1] Excurrent – Referring to the siphon which carries out the waste ...

  7. Cepaea nemoralis - Wikipedia

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    The grove snail, brown-lipped snail or lemon snail (Cepaea nemoralis) is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc. [3] It is one of the most common large species of land snail in Europe, and has been introduced to North America. Subspecies. Cepaea nemoralis etrusca (Rossmässler, 1835) [4]

  8. Land snail - Wikipedia

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    A snail breaks up its food using the radula inside its mouth. The radula is a chitinous ribbon-like structure containing rows of microscopic teeth. With this the snail scrapes at food, which is then transferred to the digestive tract. In a very quiet setting, a large land snail can be heard 'crunching' its food: the radula is tearing away at ...

  9. Lymnaea stagnalis - Wikipedia

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    Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae. The great pond snail is a model organism to study parasitology, neurology, embryonal development and genetic regulation.