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- German · calque ofSchneckenkönig“snail king”
- English todaysnail king
Calque of German Schneckenkönig (“snail king”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
snail king
Today it means: A snail possessing a sinistral shell, from a species in which dextral shells are the norm. Full definition →
German Schneckenkönig