different between snail vs bivalve

English

Etymology

From the Middle English snaile, snayle, from the Old English sne?el, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz. Cognate with Low German Snagel,Snâel, Snâl (“snail”), German Schnegel (“slug”). Compare also Old Norse snigill, from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?l
• IPA^(key): /sne?l/, [sn?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

snail (plural snails)

1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
2. (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
3. (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
4. (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
5. The pod of the snail clover.

Synonyms

• dodman, hodmandod (East Anglia, dialectal)

Derived terms

• snail trefoil (Medicago scutellata)
• snail mail
• snail's pace

Translations

See also

• heliciculture
• slug

Verb

snail (third-person singular simple present snails, present participle snailing, simple past and past participle snailed)

1. To move or travel very slowly.

Anagrams

• Lains, Lians, Nilas, Sinla, anils, lains, nails, nilas, salin, slain

English

Etymology

bi- (“two”) +? valve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?vælv/

Noun

bivalve (plural bivalves)

1. Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
2. (botany) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

Derived terms

• bivalvate

Coordinate terms

• univalve

Related terms

• univalve

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.valv/

Noun

bivalve m (plural bivalves)

1. bivalve

Further reading

• “bivalve” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

bivalve m (plural bivalvi)

1. bivalve

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bivalvo

Noun

bivalve m (plural bivalves)

1. bivalve (any mollusc in the class Bivalvia)