Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sea_snail

1 sense of sea snail

Sense 1
snailfish, seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis -- (small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish)
       => scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish -- (fishes having the head armored with bony plates)


1 of 2 senses of seasnail

Sense 2
seasnail -- (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)
       => gastropod, univalve -- (a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes)