English noun: seasnail |
1. | seasnail (animal) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish |
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| Synonyms | Liparis liparis, sea snail, snailfish |
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| Broader (hypernym) | scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish |
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| Member meronym | genus Liparis, Liparis |
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2. | seasnail (animal) any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids |
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| Broader (hypernym) | gastropod, univalve |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | limpet, moon shell, moonshell, neritid, neritid gastropod, periwinkle, triton, whelk, winkle |
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