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Sentence Examples In Thule, the third most important prey by weight was the bottom-living sea snail, Liparis spp. The two national dishes are conch, an easily collected sea snail, rice, and peas. For a while she assisted in his research on the nervous system of a sea snail. Vietnam is home to a sea snail that in the process of constructing its house forms extremely rare orange melo pearls. But the snag came when the company tried to limit eligibility to people in certain cities, informing them of their bonus via snail mail. So the spiral of the operculum of a dextral snail is invariably counterclockwise, while that of a sinistral shell is the opposite. In addition, the pulmonate snail, the marsh clam, and several polychaete worms were abundant. We carry the house of childhood around with us, like a snail with an invisible, infinitely whorled shell. Yes, in a way it resembled the shell of a snail, but this was much more intricate, complicated, and beautiful. The snail lives around the flushes of natural springs in the Sand Dale area, where it feeds on the lush vegetation. The researchers counted snail shells in soil samples from nooks of climbed and unclimbed faces of the limestone cliffs. Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation. We will confirm your order by telephone, fax, email, snail mail, carrier pigeon, heliogram or a certain pattern of stones at a designated place. Colonel Kurtz's nightmare might have been watching a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor, but ours is shopping. After looking around for a few seconds, he stooped down to pick up a snail shell he found on the sidewalk. Other fossil seed, leaf, beetle, ostracod, snail and fish remains come from a carbonaceous siltstone that represents a local waterlogged habitat. Nor is the point of etiquette to impress your guests with how much you know and they don't about, say, wines or stemware or snail eating. In about 30 seconds, cartoonist Rahnu can turn a spiral into a snail, a scribble into a bunny and a squiggle into a bird. These daughter sporocysts, containing encysted metacercariae, were then voided in the feces of the snail. The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail. Show More Sentences Chain letters can be received electronically or through snail mail and are not illegal on their own. Expect more information about the 2005 convention through snail mail, e-mail, and the summer issue of The Masthead. I will continue to receive emails and comments via snail mail from my parents. The general coloration of the snail darter is brown to brownish-gray with a trace of green above and mostly white below. Your internet connection is slow as a snail and your telephone makes buzzing noises. Okay, he's a snail. He has to hustle to keep up as the pair walk down the street. The creature within is like a huge snail with horns tipped by bright golden eyes. When mature seeds are sold in the USA, they may be called snail beans, butter beans, or pea beans. A restaurant serving dishes including snail porridge and smoked bacon and egg ice cream has been named the second best in the world. Walk boldly to the post office to send your snail mail, munching on a daily apple as you admire green spaces along the way. Most mollusks use the radula to break up food, but the cone snail uses it to inject venom. Colombian ramshorn snails lay their eggs in a blob often larger than the snail that produced it. The Quitobaquito spring snail is a tiny, 0.06 inch long aquatic snail that belongs to the Hydrobiidae family. The scientist looked at imposex in the dog whelk, a common snail along the coast of New South Wales. The exotic mud snail, Batillaria attramentaria, is common in a few bays and estuaries at the northern extent of C. californica's range. She's like a snail that's drawn in all its feelers after running into an unpleasant object. One or two pairs of tentacles are found on the head, depending on whether the snail or slug is terrestrial or aquatic. To detect prey, a cone snail uses its siphon, an organ that takes up water and directs it over the gills. The red abalone, a seaweed-eating snail prized as a source of mother-of-pearl jewelry, is found off the coast of California. I've already received a few cards from Bloggers that have exchanged snail mail addresses with me. Show More Sentences It's interesting that if only one larva penetrates a snail, it can multiply into tens of thousands of larvae through asexual reproduction. Waren said that when he first examined the sea snail, the animal's magnetized scales kept sticking to his forceps. Its curved bill bits perfectly into a snail shell, allowing the limpkin to deftly extract the mollusk. Folks may try to tell you that limpkins are exclusive apple snail specialists, but don't you believe it. It is focused on the habitat selection and associations of apple snails, snail kites, and limpkins. Snails are why I grow strawberries in window boxes, not that a snail sees the sheer cliff of wall leading to the window ledge as anything but a challenge. Nationwide, it is hoped the scheme will boost the habitats of species such as the grey partridge, twite, natterjack toad, sandbowl snail and lesser silver water beetle. This is the only keyhole limpet collected from these rocks, and it was found with other rocky intertidal snail shells such as whelks and top shells. Way back in the days of snail mail, teenagers would put an X across the envelope seal of a love letter to discourage the courier from opening the envelope to take a peek. He is, to put it a bit too flippantly, a snail geneticist gone to the bad. I'm like a bagworm that's lost its bag, a snail without its shell. Even though, as far as I know, snail shell is not a substance used in the Chinese materia medica, it resembles in shape and quality other substances which are. Remaining undigested by the medusa, the small snail will devour its host from within, growing larger as its host is correspondingly diminished in size. I'm afraid she'll get shin splints if she outpaces that snail. It is not just newspaper circulation and fixed line phone calls which are on the skids in Australia, snail mail is also starting to contract at gathering speed. Since the good rain, snails have bred up, take action now to get a Muscovy ducks, or remove the snails by hand or use snail bait, particularly on seedlings. The cone shell is a marine snail that lives in tropical regions worldwide, including the waters around northeastern Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The auto industry is a huge snail moving at its own slow pace day to day. Its multispiral, heavily sculptured, darkly colored shell, plus its large four-lobed velum, point to a different type of snail, one of the neogastropods. The larvae inside the snail host produce several thousands of cercariae. Show More Sentences Placostylus ambagiosus pandora is a subspecies of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae. Initially, Walcott considered Matthevia to be a snail, either a pteropod or a new form of equivalent rank, although he made this assignment with reservation. Nevertheless, the snail and digenean phylogenies do not appear congruent, implying that host switching occurs on evolutionary but not ecological timescales. Donoghue drank from an opaque bottle containing a decomposed snail and claimed that it had made her ill. In fact, her love of escargot has led to her setting up Ireland's only snail farm. Within the snail, the miracidium transforms into a sporocyst, which divides and eventually produces thousands of cercariae. Donoghue bought her a bottle of ginger beer, which contained the partially decomposed remains of a snail. Cercaria emasculans is known to be fatal to the snail, but this does not account for the observed mortality. If not, the snail applies the tip of its proboscis to individual tube feet, causing them to detach. Careful attention was made to look for deposits of subfossil snail shells under deep overhangs and in cave entrances. Researchers reveal that certain substances derived from cone snail venom can be used to treat chronic nerve pain. More than 70 marine shell beads of the sea snail species Nassarius kraussianus have been found in the M1 and Upper M2 phases at Blombos Cave. There is another snail known as small periwinkle or Melarhaphe neritoides that looks similar, but is smaller in size. The sea snail perlemoen abalone is targeted by illegal fishing and remain overfished. The encyclopedia mentions different sources of purple dye, particularly the murex snail, the highly prized source of Tyrian purple. Her comparison of a silvery moon gliding across a midnight sky to a moon snail gliding on silvery sands creates in us a sense of awe. Here you can sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-ofpearl shell rendered almost extinct by overfishing. The sea snails save their jumping for conch emergencies, such as when they detect dissolved body odor from the deadly cone snail Conus marmoreus. Around 500 species of cone snail live in waters around French Polynesia in the southern Pacific. The bluffs above the swamp are the only known home of the carinate pill snail, a species once thought extinct. Show More Sentences Having failed to woo the snail with his dulcet garage tones, Dan tries the more direct approach and lands a smackeroo on its lips. If we don't protect those, saving the snail darter or the spotted owl won't mean a thing. An pounds 8million study is researching the powerful venom that the tropical cone snail injects into its prey through a harpoon-like tooth. You've got circumstances now where the snail darter and spotted owl have status they didn't have years ago. All the flying has been tiring so the snail mail can wait until the morning I can't post a cheque in an envelope until then anyway. Each of the 700 species of cone snail has its own unique venom, made up of a specific cocktail of toxins. About 18 of the world's 500 cone snail species have resulted in human envenomation. We need to jam their phone lines and fax lines, and fill up their e-mail and snail mail boxes with messages of outrage. But he can be reached either by e-mailing the papal secretary or by snail mail through a post office box number in Springdale, Washington. I do not shy away from the sinister horseshoe crab, nor do I shrink from the slimy foot of the moon snail. Among the findings were 3,000,000 crushed snail shells and Kassite potsherds. Most of the clams in the lower plots were recovered dead with a countersunk hole, typical of predation by the moon snail, Euspira heros Say. She's got an elegant collection of cowry, nautilus and snail shells dipped in gold as well. To the wood Martin added an oncolite of a 50 million year old fossil snail that he had collected near Dubois, Wyoming. The second set of experiments compared the predation behavior of the green crab, the common starfish and the moon snail. The biggest giant African land snail ever recorded measured almost 40cm from snout to tail when fully extended and weighed nearly one kilogram. The infection by this parasite does not seem to alter the growth and proportions of the snail shell. Experiments seem to indicated that the snail responds to light and current, and moves accordingly. The snail population has been censused thirteen times in the last five years. The problem arose when the demand rose for that special dye from a sea snail. Show More Sentences Descriptions of twenty-five new species of land snail from the collection of Hugh Cuming Esq. To send a letter by snail mail, you must still compose it, and also print it out, unless you write it by hand or on a typewriter. Two naturally occurring widespread species of the predaceous land snail Euglandina are currently recognized from Texas. Using sea snail nerve cells, the scientists reversed memory loss by determining when the cells were primed for learning. Something that looked like a remnant from a Hawaiian luau beach party turned out to be a string of sea snail egg cases. Anemotaxis and odour-trial following by the terrestrial snail Helix aspersa. Turning the shell over with the aperture flat on a surface and measuring vertically reveals the height of the snail. The name invokes the Phoenician practice of extracting a deep purple dye from a species of sea snail. Historical allopatry and the biogeography of speciation in the prosobranch snail genus Nucella. Distribution and habitats of the snail Lymnaea truncatula, intermediate host of the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica, in South Africa. Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes. Tributyltin compounds have caused the disappearance or reduction of the dogwhelk snail along the British coast. Pablico and Moody attempted to use the molluscicide Fentin acetate to control the golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata Lam. Phlorotannins in Fucus vesiculosus act as chemical defences against the marine herbivorous snail Littorina littorea. Eggshells, snail shells and most seashells are predominantly calcium carbonate and can be used as industrial sources of that chemical. The effect of certain inorganic and vegetable substances on the English pond snail Planorbis corneus. Measuring the shell from the end of the aperture to the apex reveals the length of the snail. And at that trial it was found that there never was a snail in the bottle at all. Relatively little of note actually happens, and those who like stories with their films will find events unfolding at the pace of a particularly sluggardy snail. The apple snail was released in Southeast Asia with the intent that it be used as a protein source, and subsequently to places like Hawaii to establish a food industry. Show More Sentences Its first intermediate host is a snail and the second, a glass shrimp. Byrd described a new species of digene from larval metacercariae developing in a mother sporocyst found in a tentacle of the terrestrial snail Succinea retusa. The other extraordinary organism that I would like to point out, that I think is really interesting, is the cone snail and the search for new pharmaceuticals. Supergenes are widespread in nature and account for a multitude of visual features, from the shape of primrose flowers to the colour and pattern of snail shells. Indeed, with the possible exception of Agriolimax laevis, I do not know of any other British sigmurethrous snail or slug in which anything at all comparable has been found. AwesuMO The biology and management of the African giant land snail. In the days of snail mail, there was a phenomenon known as penfriends. Land snail species richness in Idanre hills, Ondo State, Nigeria. The eggs hatch in water and go through a series of developmental stages in a snail and enter the gills, muscles or viscera of fresh-water crustaceans. It is now to get full legal protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, along with the angel shark, roman snail, spiny seahorse and short snouted seahorse. The vents on Mount Dent also thronged with the new shrimp, along with a snake-like fish, an unknown species of snail and a flea-like crustacean called an amphipod. We found a blood worm, a pond snail, some water mites and a water boatman. The pesticide atrazine acted synergistically with predation to affect survival, reproduction, and immunity for individuals in the snail species Physa gyrina. The ecology and life history of the pond snail Physa gyrina. Ulrich's masterpiece is a subtle glimpse of beach evening primrose curling out among caliche and Ayres' snail shells on San Miguel Island like a graceful spider. All 651 species of terrestrial snail are endemic, as are a majority of the island's butterflies, scarab beetles, lacewings, spiders and dragonflies. One such pest, the giant African snail Achatina fulica, has been introduced to many parts of Asia, as well as to many islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. We have killed two Siamese fighting fish and also a snail, which made me jump out of my skin one night, so we have put on hold any thoughts about adopting a stray cat. An endocast or internal mold is formed when sediments or minerals fill the internal cavity of an organism, such as the inside of a bivalve or snail or the hollow of a skull. At the last-named you can also sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-of-pearl shell rendered almost extinct by over-fishing over decades. Show More Sentences And while some Francophiles might snobbishly recommend a fancy French Rhone with escargots, I suggest a local Truro Vineyards chardonnay to accompany our region's moon snail. Similarly, affiliation with an organization that supports the preservation of the tiny snail darter may be deemed of little or no concern by a company's customers. People will move over to electronic mail in a bigger way, couriers will pick up the slack left by the Post Office and people will learn over time to do without snail mail. It brings a whole new meaning to snail mail and there's a welcome symmetry when junk mail becomes junk food for snails but the odd bill has been digested beyond recognition. Examples from Classical Literature It seemed to me that something like a snail was on the outside of the window-pane. Then he sweeps them all together in one heap, along with snail shells and rush-seeds. Finally, in folk-lore the snail is an uncanny or demoniac being, because it has horns. It still must pass through its life cycle, but its intermediate host need not be one species of snail, fish, or copepod. Roof and walls had attached themselves to his sentiency, even as the shell of the snail is attached to its pulp. The same family contains the beautiful violet Ianthina, which also is not a British species, but a free-swimming oceanic snail. The pearly nautilus usually creeps, like a snail, along the bed of the sea. The land snail does not own a door, but he makes one when he goes to sleep for the winter. But this extraordinarily lean and livid youth seemed to have no more blood in him than a snail. Before that, conkers was played with hazel or cobnuts or even snail shells. Cochleatus is from cochlea, a snail, from resembling its shell. It started off at snail pace, but even that wor too mich for Joa. Compare the mussel with the snail as to movements and shell. An array of exotic water creatures like golden apple snail and red devilfish are also on display. Go Fast, Goo is a softcover children's picturebook with striking, colorful artwork about a snail who is tired of being slow. You can see him as an owl perched on a village belle or a snail being privy to arcana traditions. His eyes became dreamy, as though he were matching things, and reminded Rachel in their colour of the green flesh of a snail. But do me one cast of thy holy office, and, come what list of others, thou shalt sleep as safe in thy cell as a snail within his shell of proof. The Big Cypress Water Conservation Plan will benefit all types of wildlife, including the endangered Everglade snail kite, wood stork, and Florida panther. It stuck to the premises of Gruff and Tackleton, like a barnacle to a ship's keel, or a snail to a door, or a little bunch of toadstools to the stem of a tree. Show More Sentences The old style was characterized by marketers sending masses of inquiries to potential customers via snail mail, phone and fax, with the hope that some people will buy. I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. The is the The fruit of the horse chestnut tree was first used for conker fights 200 years ago as a replacement to hazel, cobnut and snail shells. A deep-sea snail wears a multilayered suit of armor, complete with iron. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of snail? Words that rhyme with snail What is the past tense of snail? What is the plural of snail? What is the adjective for snail? What is the noun for snail? Translations for snail Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words snags snaggy snaggle-toothed snaggletoothed snaggletooth snagging snailfish snail-like snail mail snails snail's pace snake 5-letter Words Starting With s sn sna snai