"Snail" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 wō niú snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1 niu2]
 luó spiral shell / snail / conch
 wō snail / Taiwan pr. [gua1] / see 蝸牛|蜗牛[wo1 niu2]
 sī snail
 kuò snail / slug / mole cricket
 yú snail
 shuǐ niú r (dialect) snail
 fù scales on the belly of a snake, aiding locomotion / snail / to crawl
 wō yán snail
 hǎi luó sea snail / whelk / conch
 tián luó river snail
 luó sī river snail
寿 fú shòu luó giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix) that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s
 yǐ dòu wō zhēng lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom) / fig. petty squabbling
 wō xíng niú bù lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom) / fig. to move at a snail's pace / to make slow progress
 shā luó jì snail poison
 luó hàn bìng snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis), disease caused by schistosome parasitic flatworm
 liè tǐ xī chóng schistosome, parasitic flatworm causing snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis)
 wō niú yóu jiàn snail mail
 lù bèi land snail
 yù luó moon snail (sea snail of the Naticidae family)
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