Word.ws English Dictionary

mudsnail

mudsnail noun: any of several univalve molluscs found on tidal mudflats, typically in New Zealand.

Noun

mudsnail (plural mudsnails)

  1. Any of several univalve molluscs found on tidal mudflats, typically in New Zealand.

Forms of mudsnail

pluralmudsnails

Origin of mudsnail

From mud + snail.

Questions about mudsnail

What does mudsnail mean?
Mudsnail means any of several univalve molluscs found on tidal mudflats, typically in New Zealand.
What part of speech is mudsnail?
Mudsnail is a noun.
What is the plural of mudsnail?
The plural of mudsnail is mudsnails.

Words near mudsnail in the dictionary

  1. mudslingings
  2. mudslings
  3. mudslum
  4. mudslums
  5. mudslung
  6. mudsnail
  7. mudsnails
  8. mudsnake
  9. mudsnakes
  10. mudspate
  11. mudspates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mudsnail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mudsnail.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mudsnail. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.