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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Water snail

/wôt'-ẽr snāl/ · Wa·ter snail · IPA
01 Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.
  1. 1.
    Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail.(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    The Archimedean screw.(Mech.) [R.]