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seasnail

seasnail noun: the snailfish (family Liparidae). Also the alternative form of sea snail.

Noun

seasnail (plural seasnails)

  1. The snailfish (family Liparidae).

Also used as

seasnail is also the alternative form of sea snail.

Forms of seasnail

pluralseasnails

Origin of seasnail

From Middle English *se-snail, from Old English sǣsnæġl (“seasnail”), equivalent to sea + snail. Cognate with Danish søsnegl (“seasnail”), Norwegian sjøsnegl (“seasnail”), Icelandic sjósnigill (“seasnail”). The fish name likely a clipping of seasnail(fish).

Words formed from seasnail

  • common seasnail
  • Atlantic seasnail
  • common sea-snail
  • striped seasnail Liparis liparis)
  • Montagu's seasnail

Questions about seasnail

What does seasnail mean?
Seasnail means the snailfish (family Liparidae).
What part of speech is seasnail?
Seasnail is a noun.
What is the plural of seasnail?
The plural of seasnail is seasnails.

Words near seasnail in the dictionary

  1. seasider
  2. seasiders
  3. seasides
  4. seasidey
  5. seasing
  6. seasnail
  7. seasnails
  8. seasnake
  9. seasnakes
  10. season
  11. season creep

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seasnail (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.

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