Scorpion vs Snail - What's the difference?
scorpion | snail |
Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones , related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.
An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda , having a coiled shell.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
(engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
(military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
* Vegetius (in translation)
The pod of the snail clover.
As nouns the difference between scorpion and snail
is that scorpion is any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end while snail is any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.As an adjective Scorpion
is of, or pertaining to, the Scorpio star sign.As a verb snail is
to move or travel very slowly.scorpion
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(wikipedia scorpion)Alternative forms
* skorpionNoun
(en noun)See also
* arachnid * Scorpio *Derived terms
* scorpionate * scorpion kick * scorpionlike ----snail
English
(wikipedia snail) (Helicidae)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- They had also all manner of gynes [engines]