🐌 Snail
A snail, a slow-moving, snail-like mollusk in a spiraling shell. Generally depicted as a brown snail in full profile facing left or right, with a brown, textured shell and tentacle-like eyes. May be used to represent a slug and various senses of slow. Twitter’s snail has a purple body and yellow shell. Microsoft’s snail previously had a green body.
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🐌 Snail
Also known as: Garden Snail, Slug
Unicode: U+1F40C
Image Variants
3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
snail
Shortcodes
| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :snail: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Animal symbols
Definition:
A snail shown with distinctive spiral shell. Differs greatly in color and style across different platforms. Snail was approved as part of Un http://emojipedia.org/snail/
Adjectives:
- Moving slowly
- Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
- Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Spread over a comparatively long time.
Verbs:
- Advance slowly, as if by inches
Nouns:
- Snail is a common name that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- Any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell.
- Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- Mollusc
- (Gastropoda) Ventral footed mollusk, including land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.