seasnail

seasnail
/see"snayl'/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) seasnail, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) seasnails.
1. any of several snailfishes of the genus Liparis, of the North Atlantic.
2. any of several marine gastropods having a spirally coiled shell, as a whelk.
[bef. 1000; ME seesnail, OE saesnaegl. See SEA, SNAIL]

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