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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sea snail Zool. (a) A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. (b) Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sea snail
      n : small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins
          forming a sucker; related to lumpfish [syn: snailfish,
          seasnail, Liparis liparis]