Sloth vs. Snail

Slothnoun

(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.

Slothnoun

(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.

Slothnoun

(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.

Slothverb

To be idle; to idle (away time).

Slothnoun

Slowness; tardiness.

Slothnoun

Disinclination to action or labor; sluggishness; laziness; idleness.

Slothnoun

Any one of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidæ, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.

Slothverb

To be idle.

Slothnoun

a disinclination to work or exert yourself

Slothnoun

any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits

Slothnoun

apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Slothnoun

reluctance to work or make an effort; laziness

Slothnoun

a slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees using its long limbs and hooked claws.

Slothnoun

a group of bears

Sloth

Sloths are a group of arboreal Neotropical xenarthran mammals, constituting the suborder Folivora. Noted for their slowness of movement, they spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America.

Snailnoun

Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.

Snailnoun

A slow person; a sluggard.

Snailnoun

(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.

Snailnoun

A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.

Snailnoun

The pod of the snail clover.

Snailverb

To move or travel very slowly

Snailnoun

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidæ. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.

Snailnoun

Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.

Snailnoun

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.

Snailnoun

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.

Snailnoun

The pod of the sanil clover.

Snailnoun

freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell

Snailnoun

edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic

Snailverb

gather snails;

Snail

A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.