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Snail vs. Slug

A snail gets defined as mollusk that has a single shell around it for protection, inside which all the body fits without any spirals. On the other hand, a slug gets defined as the mollusk that does not have any shell on the outer surface and spits out a liquid that helps them to stay safe.

Key Differences

A snail does have a large shell that exists on the outer surface, on the other hand, a slug may have a shell inside but does not have any shell on the outer surface.
Snails usually act as the enemy of farmers as they like to eat green products and hence, destroy the crops. On the other hand, slugs serve as a pesticide for farmers used to kill different insects.
The life of a snail is much less than the life of a slug and usually, ranges between 2-3 years at most. On the other hand, the lift of a slug stays much more and even goes up to 6 years for the wild ones.
Janet White
Jul 23, 2017
A snail gets defined as mollusk that has a single shell around it for protection, inside which all the body fits without any spirals. On the other hand, a slug gets defined as the mollusk that does not have any shell on the outer surface and spits out a liquid that helps them to stay safe.
The speed of snail usually ranges between one millimeter in one second. On the other hand, the rate of a slug keeps changing but stays much more than the rate of a snail.
Samantha Walker
Jul 23, 2017

Comparison Chart

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A mollusk that has a single shell around it for protection, inside which all the body fits without any spirals.
A mollusk that does not have any shell on the outer surface and spits out a liquid that helps them to stay safe.
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Utilization

Act as the enemy of farmers as they like to eat green products
Serve as a pesticide for farmers used to kill different insects.

Shell

Always has a large external shell.
It does not have an external shell but may have internal shells.

Life Expectancy

It ranges between 2-3 years at most.
It goes up to 6 years for the wild ones.

Snail and Slug Definitions

Snail

Any of numerous aquatic or terrestrial gastropod mollusks that typically have a spirally coiled shell, retractile foot, and distinct head.

Slug

A round bullet larger than buckshot.

Snail

A slow-moving, lazy, or sluggish person.
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Slug

A shot of liquor.

Snail

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

Slug

An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.

Snail

A slow person; a sluggard.

Slug

A small metal disk for use in a vending or gambling machine, especially one used illegally.

Snail

(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.
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Slug

A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.

Snail

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

Slug

A strip of type metal, less than type-high and thicker than a lead, used for spacing.

Snail

The pod of the snail clover.

Slug

A line of cast type in a single strip of metal.

Snail

(railroading) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.

Slug

A compositor's type line of identifying marks or instructions, inserted temporarily in copy.

Snail

To move or travel very slowly.

Slug

(Physics) The British unit of mass that accelerates at the rate of one foot per second per second when acted on by a force of one pound on the surface of the Earth.

Snail

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.

Slug

Any of various terrestrial gastropod mollusks having a slow-moving slimy elongated body with no shell or with a flat rudimentary shell on or under the skin, usually found in moist habitats.

Snail

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

Slug

A sea slug.

Snail

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.

Slug

The smooth soft larva of certain insects, such as the sawfly.

Snail

A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
They had also all manner of gynes [engines] . . . that needful is [in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails.

Slug

A slimy mass of aggregated amoeboid cells that develops into the spore-bearing fruiting body of a cellular slime mold.

Snail

The pod of the sanil clover.

Slug

(Informal) A sluggard.

Snail

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

Slug

A hard heavy blow, as with the fist or a baseball bat.

Snail

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

Slug

A commuter who slugs.

Snail

Gather snails;
We went snailing in the summer

Slug

(Printing) To add slugs to.

Slug

(Informal) To drink rapidly or in large gulps
Slugged down a can of pop.

Slug

To strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.

Slug

To wait for or obtain a ride to work by standing at a roadside hoping to be picked up by a driver who needs another passenger to use the HOV lanes of a highway.

Slug

Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

Slug

(obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.

Slug

A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.

Slug

A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.

Slug

A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.

Slug

A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.

Slug

(journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.

Slug

The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.

Slug

A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.

Slug

A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.

Slug

(railroading) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.

Slug

(television editing) A black screen.

Slug

(metal typesetting) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.

Slug

(regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.

Slug

A hitchhiking commuter.

Slug

(web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.

Slug

(obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.

Slug

A ship that sails slowly.

Slug

To hit A hard blow, usually with the fist.

Slug

To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.

Slug

To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

Slug

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.

Slug

To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.

Slug

(transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
To slug a gun

Slug

To make sluggish.

Slug

(transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
He insulted my mother, so I slugged him.
The fighter slugged his opponent into unconsciousness.

Slug

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

Slug

A hindrance; an obstruction.

Slug

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.

Slug

Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.

Slug

A ship that sails slowly.
His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover.

Slug

An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.

Slug

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, - used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.

Slug

To move slowly; to lie idle.
To slug in sloth and sensual delight.

Slug

To make sluggish.

Slug

To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.

Slug

To strike heavily.

Slug

To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; - said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.

Slug

A projectile that is fired from a gun

Slug

An idle slothful person

Slug

Any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell

Slug

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;
He slugged me so hard that I passed out

Slug

Be idle; exist in a changeless situation;
The old man sat and stagnated on his porch
He slugged in bed all morning

What is Snail?

A snail gets defined as mollusk that has a single shell around it for protection, inside which all the body fits without any spirals. They do not have a larger size and mostly found in fields where people grow crops. There are many sorts of snails, however they on a very basic level contrast since they are sea-going or earthbound. The previous are adjusted to living in the ocean or groups of new water, yet the last live only ashore, even though in muggy regions. All land snails are gastropod mollusks, implying that they have a place with a similar gathering of octopuses, which are a piece of the phylum Mollusca. In the meantime, they are individuals from the class Gastropoda, which incorporates all snails and slugs. Being a mollusk implies without an inner skeleton and bones, yet snails are not unprotected. The most striking physical element of snails is their winding shell that they stack on the back. It is a hard structure made from calcium carbonate, which secures their fine body and inward organs. Among these organs is their lung since land snails inhale air from the environment that then goes into a lung to get the oxygen; this is one of the principle contrasts with marine snails, that exclusive a couple of types of water snails inhale air. At the point when snails duplicate and harm crops or somehow influence the types of a district or the individual, they are considered bugs. Certain species grow up to the span of a grown-up hand, and apparently, their bolstering needs likewise increment.

What is Slug?

A slug gets defined as the mollusk that does not have any shell on the outer surface and spits out a liquid that helps them to stay safe. For that reason, it gets used as one of the pesticides for plants. Like other pulmonate arrive gastropods, the greater part of land slugs have two sets of “sensors” or limbs on their head. The upper combine is light detecting and has eyespots at the closures, while the lower match gives the feeling of smell. Both sets are retractable. Slugs love cool, dull and soggy spots under loads up, heaps of leaves, old nursery pots, weedy zones and low hanging leaves at the base of plants. Take out, however, many concealing spots as could be expected under the circumstances all through your garden. Trim off any leaves that touch the ground. Separate extensive soil hunks. Finally, move the manure heap far from the backyard. Manure is excellent stuff however it can be a slug safe house, mainly before it separates. Just 5% of the slug populace is on the ground at any one time. The other 95% is underground processing your seedlings, laying eggs, and encouraging on roots and seed grows. Different ordered groups of land slugs shape some portion of a few very extraordinary transformative heredities, which additionally incorporate snails. In this way, the various groups of slugs are not firmly related, in spite of a slight similitude in the general body frame. The shell-less condition has emerged commonly autonomously amid the developmental past, and in this way, the class “slug” is a polyphyletic one.

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