English words for 'snailflower'
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noun
noun
- The pod of the snail clover.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (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.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- 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
verb
prefix
noun
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
noun
noun
noun
- A land snail of the genus Glyphyalinia
- (architecture) A vertical groove.
- Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
- Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.
- (typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.
- A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
- glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief
noun
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- The planet Earth.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
noun
- A sea snail (Phasianella australis).
- A flower of the pea family (Gompholobium scabrum), native to southwestern Australia.
- (US, architecture) A Victorian house repainted with vibrant colors to accentuate the architectural design, especially in San Francisco, California.
- A painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a forest wildflower of North America.
- Any of certain cryptic patterned butterflies of genus Vanessa (family Nymphalidae), especially Vanessa cardui.
noun
- any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process
- any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood
- Any of various orchids with helmet-shaped flowers, of genera Coryanthes, Corybas, Cranichis, Nematoceras, and Pterostylis.
noun
- any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process
- a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
- a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised
noun
noun
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
- edible marine gastropod
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- (Pacific Northwest US) A caddisfly larva.
- Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
- A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
- A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
adj
noun
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- edible marine gastropod
- A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
- (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
verb
noun
noun
adj
noun
noun
- The pod of the snail clover.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (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.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- 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
verb
noun
- A snail of the genus Vertigo.
- A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.
- A disordered or imbalanced state of mind or things analogous to physical vertigo; mental giddiness or dizziness.
- The act of whirling round and round; rapid rotation.
- a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
noun
noun
noun
- A land snail of the genus Glyphyalinia
- (architecture) A vertical groove.
- Any of various figures used in Mayan writing.
- Any non-verbal symbol that imparts information.
- (typography, computing) A visual representation of a letter, character, or symbol, in a specific font and style.
- Any of various black-and-white noctuid moths with figural-like wing patterns, such as those in Protodeltote, Deltote, and Maliattha.
- A figure carved in relief or incised, especially representing a sound, word, or idea.
- glyptic art in the form of a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief
noun
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
- A spherical model of Earth or other planet.
- The planet Earth.
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- A part of a device, often a lamp.
- (medicine) The eyeball.
- (slang, quite uncommon, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- an object with a spherical shape
- a sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
verb
noun
- A sea snail (Phasianella australis).
- A flower of the pea family (Gompholobium scabrum), native to southwestern Australia.
- (US, architecture) A Victorian house repainted with vibrant colors to accentuate the architectural design, especially in San Francisco, California.
- A painted trillium (Trillium undulatum), a forest wildflower of North America.
- Any of certain cryptic patterned butterflies of genus Vanessa (family Nymphalidae), especially Vanessa cardui.
noun
- any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process
- any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood
- Any of various orchids with helmet-shaped flowers, of genera Coryanthes, Corybas, Cranichis, Nematoceras, and Pterostylis.
noun
- any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process
- a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
- a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised
noun
noun
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
- edible marine gastropod
- commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers
- (Pacific Northwest US) A caddisfly larva.
- Similar plants of genus Catharanthus.
- A mollusk of family Littorinidae.
- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Vinca with blue or white flowers.
- A color with bluish and purplish hues, somewhat light.
adj
noun
- small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
- edible marine gastropod
- A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
- (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- The pod of the snail clover.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (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.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- 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
verb
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