sea snail

2 definitions found

sea snail - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sea snail \Sea" snail`\ (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.
         [1913 Webster]

sea snail - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sea snail
      n 1: small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins
           forming a sucker; related to lumpfish [syn: snailfish,
           seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis]