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Webster 1913 Edition

Sea snail

Sea′ snailˊ

.

(Zool.)

(a)

A small fish of the genus

Liparis

, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

(b)

Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of

Littorina

,

Natica

, etc.