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semislug

noun

Etymology

From semi- + slug.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”
  2. formed as semislug — “semi- + slug”

Definitions

  1. A land gastropod whose shell is too small to retract into, but not vestigial.

    • This assumption is corroborated by the fact that the proportion of semislugs in the present fauna is low as compared with the proportions of snails and slugs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for semislug. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA