Elephant vs. Snail — What's the Difference?

Elephants are a select group of proboscideans belonging to the family Elephantidae. They are the largest existing land animals.

A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

Any of several very large herbivorous mammals of the family Elephantidae native to Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and, in the African species, large fan-shaped ears.

Any of numerous aquatic or terrestrial gastropod mollusks that typically have a spirally coiled shell, retractile foot, and distinct head.

Any of various extinct animals of the family Elephantidae.

A slow-moving, lazy, or sluggish person.

A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

(in particular) Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas.

A slow person; a sluggard.

(figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.

(engineering) 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.

Synonym of elephant paper

A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

Used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second

The pod of the snail clover.

Ivory.

(railroading) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

(xiangqi) A xiangqi piece, that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river.

To move or travel very slowly.

A mammal of the order Proboscidia and family Elephantidae, of which two living species, Elephas maximus (formerly Elephas Indicus) and Loxodonta Africana (formerly E. Africanus), and several fossil species, are known. They have five toes, a long proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. The elephant is classed as a pachyderm.

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.

Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

Five-toed pachyderm

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.

The symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.

The pod of the sanil clover.

Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Gather snails;