Meanings of sea snail in English

Paul McEndree for help with sea snail mucus and purple dye.

A deep- sea snail wears a multilayered suit of armor, complete with iron, new research shows.

I wonder if he knew that his toga was dyed with what was basically sea snail spittle.

It was some manner of sea snail, and the horse was pawing at it, and nipping with his teeth.

The champion in this category is Littorina saxatilis, a sea snail popularly known as the rough periwinkle, which has been described and named 113 times.

We will need more factories to turn the sea snails into purple dye.

Some sea snails produce poisonous darts to hunt small fish and defend themselves.

They guided carts pulled by extraordinary beasts of burden: sea snails eight feet high.

Prototypes for every animal body plan rapidly emerged, from sea snails to starfish, from insects to crustaceans.

Limpets -essentially sea snails tucked into a shell about the size of a 50p coin -studded every rock.

Australian scientists say female sea snails are no longer growing penises after a ban on a chemical previously used on boats.

Maysar kicked at a little pile of shells, saying, The sea snails need not be crushed up and turned into pulp.

Cannot this possibly mythical obstacle be flattened-out by the amiable acceptance of a jar of sea snails or some other seasonable delicacy, honourable Hien?

Australia's Western Abalone Processors used to pick around two-thirds of its yearly quota of the sea snails in January for the Lunar New Year market.

If you're not interested in spotting sea snails and birds, go just to witness the beautiful result of the tide flooding the forest each day.

Tyre, in what is now Lebanon, was a Phoenician city on the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea where the sea snails (still) live.