Snail meaning in English

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Definition

a snail: a small, slimy creature with a shell noun
an escargot: this animal when prepared as an appetizer noun

Examples

  • "Which do I like better, snails or oysters?"
  • "Bruno : I said "I hope they bring us many snails"."
  • "Here, have a snail."
  • "Icarus : Well, we're lucky to have a number of new recruits in our team. We have a gang of snails who handle our outgoing payments."
  • "Icarus : We're lucky to have a number of new recruits in our team. We have a gang of snails who handle our outgoing payments."
  • "Brian : Followed by frogs' legs in garlic sauce or snails."
  • "Bruno : We'll start with some champagne please, and then the snails as an appetizer."
  • "Bruno : I said 'I hope they bring us many snails'."
  • ""The building is in the form of an organic spiral and honors the work of Xavier Delavigne who loved to eat snail soup while working on his early perfumes in France," he said."
  • "Potatoes and snails and mustard"
  • "Rogers, known for his radical and innovative buildings, has designed a structure which resembles a snail."
  • "Clarence : May I suggest either the escargots or a nice gazpacho soup?"
Exercise 1
Clarence suggests the "escargots" to Bruno.
He is suggesting .
Clarence suggests the "escargots" to Bruno.
He is suggesting snails.
snails: Clarence suggests the "escargots" to Bruno as an appetizer. The French term "escargot" is used in the United States and Britain, usually in fancy or expensive restaurants to refer to cooked "snails". The snail is the animal itself, a gastropod in the mollusk family.
snakes: Clarence suggests the "escargots" to Bruno, which refers to "snails", not snakes. A snake is serpent, a reptile found both on land and occasionally at sea. Well known species of snakes include anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons.
slugs: The slug is a mollusk in the same family as the snail, however they aren't the same animal, and Clarence is not suggesting slugs to Bruno. The principal difference between the snail and the slug is the slug's lack of a shell.
squid: The squid is a cephalopod found in the ocean. It can range in size from very small to giant. The giant squid is legendary for its confrontations with the Sperm whale, a whale famous for its role as Captain Ahab's primeval enemy in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. The squid is often eaten, usually in the form of "calamari", however Clarence is not suggesting the squid to Bruno in this scene.

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