Snail vs. Escargot

Snailnoun

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

Escargotnoun

(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.

Snailnoun

A slow person; a sluggard.

Escargotnoun

(countable) A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish.

Snailnoun

(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.

Escargotnoun

any edible terrestrial snail prepared as food; as a dish, it is usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic.

Snailnoun

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

Escargotnoun

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

Snailnoun

The pod of the snail clover.

Escargot

Escargot (French pronunciation: [ɛskaʁɡo] (listen)), from the French word for snail, is a dish consisting of cooked land snails. It is often served as an hors d'oeuvre and is common in France and parts of India (particularly among the Naga people and Manipur).

Snailverb

To move or travel very slowly

Snailnoun

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.

Snailnoun

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

Snailnoun

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.

Snailnoun

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

‘They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.’;

Snailnoun

The pod of the sanil clover.

Snailnoun

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

Snailnoun

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

Snailverb

gather snails;

‘We went snailing in the summer’;

Snail

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