snail
US: /ˈsneɪɫ/
UK: /snˈeɪl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
snail /sneil/- danh từ
- con ốc sên, con sên
- to go at the snail's pace (gallop): đi chậm như sên
- người chậm như sên
- con ốc sên, con sên
- động từ
- bắt ốc sên, khử ốc sên (ở vườn)
Advanced English dictionary
+ nouna small soft creature with a hard round shell on its back, that moves very slowly and often eats garden plants. Some types of snail can be eaten.
Idioms: at a snail's pace very slowly
Collocation
ADJ.
edible | land, marine, pond, sea, water
SNAIL + NOUN
shell
PHRASES
(at) a snail's pace
Traffic had slowed to a snail's pace.
Concise dictionary
snailssneɪlnoun
+freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
+edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
verb
+gather snails
