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Record 1 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
Universal entry(ies)
Helix lucorum
Latin
OBS

Family: Helicidae.

OBS

Turkish snail: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Helix lucorum
Latin
OBS

Famille : Helicidae.

OBS

escargot turc : nom français commercial normalisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Littorina littorea
Latin
OBS

A snail (Gastropoda) of the family Littorinidae.

OBS

periwinkle: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Littorina littorea
Latin
OBS

Escargot(Gastropoda) de la famille des Littorinidae.

OBS

bigorneau : Nom commercial normalisé par l’OLF, le Bureau de normalisation du Québec et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
Universal entry(ies)
Buccinidae
Latin
DEF

Any of numerous large marine gastropod mollusks of the family Buccinidae.

OBS

whelk: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Buccinidae
Latin
DEF

Gros gastropode comestible des côtes de l’Atlantique (Famille des buccinidés).

OBS

buccin : nom commercial normalisé par l’OLF, le Bureau de normalisation du Québec et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

OBS

Deux espèces de buccinidés sont présentes dans les captures québécoises : Buccinum undatum et Neptunea despectatornata.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
  • Productos del mar y de agua dulce (Ind. alimentaria)
  • Pesca comercial
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Buccinidae
Latin
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Record 4 2022-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mental health and hygiene
CONT

Cave syndrome is being defined as a persistent unwillingness to leave the relative safety and security of the home to risk COVID infection or re-infection as the pandemic abates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé mentales
CONT

Le syndrome de la cabane se traduit par une angoisse de sortir de chez soi et de se confronter au monde extérieur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Higiene y salud mental
OBS

síndrome de la cabaña: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que los nombres de síndromes como el "síndrome de la cabaña" o el "síndrome de la cara vacía", entre otros, se escriben con minúsculas y sin comillas.

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Record 5 2021-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stairs and Stairways
DEF

A stairway with a circular plan and wedge-shaped treads.

CONT

The spiral staircase is characterized by the way it revolves around a centrally located column. As the individual steps are stacked they form a spiral, which is subsequently reinforced and cast. The spiral then becomes the supporting element and acts as the column around which the steps revolve.

OBS

helical stair; helical staircase : even though some sources indicate differences between helical stairs and spiral stairs, the terms "helical stair" and "helical staircase" are mostly used in the sense of "spiral stair."

Key term(s)
  • winding stair

French

Domaine(s)
  • Escaliers
DEF

Escalier tournant en spirale autour d’un axe, dit noyau, qui soutient toutes les marches.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Escaleras
DEF

[Escalera] de forma [de hélice], seguida y sin descansillos.

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Record 6 2021-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
OBS

Nom usuel donné aux mollusques appartenant à la classe des gastéropodes et au genre Helix. Il existe plusieurs milliers d’espèces d’escargots dans le monde.

Spanish

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Record 7 2020-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Commercial Fishing
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
Universal entry(ies)
Helix pomatia
Latin
OBS

escargot: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Pêche commerciale
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Helix pomatia
Latin
OBS

Gros mollusque gastéropode pulmoné stylommatophore comestible, terrestre de la famille des hélicidés.

OBS

escargot de Bourgogne : nom français commercial normalisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

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Record 8 2020-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Recipes
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
CONT

Snail butter does not actually have any snails in it. It is a compound butter that is actually used in France for serving snails in the shell.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recettes de cuisine
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
DEF

Beurre additionné d’ail, de persil et d’échalote.

Spanish

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Record 9 2019-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Inflectarius inflectus
Latin
Mesodon inflectus
Latin
Polygyra inflecta
Latin
OBS

A mollusc (order Gastropoda) of the family Polygyridae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Inflectarius inflectus
Latin
Mesodon inflectus
Latin
Polygyra inflecta
Latin
OBS

Mollusque (ordre des gastéropodes) de la famille des Polygyridae.

Spanish

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Record 10 2018-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Cepaea nemoralis
Latin
OBS

A gastropod (a class of Mollusca) of the family Helicidae.

Key term(s)
  • grove snail
  • banded grovesnail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Cepaea nemoralis
Latin
OBS

Gastéropode (classe de mollusques) de la famille des Helicidae.

Spanish

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Record 11 2018-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Cepaea hortensis
Latin
OBS

A gastropod (a class of Mollusca) of the family Helicidae.

Key term(s)
  • white-lip garden-snail
  • white-lipped grovesnail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Cepaea hortensis
Latin
OBS

Gastéropode (classe de mollusques) de la famille des Helicidae.

Spanish

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Record 12 2018-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Cornu aspersum
Latin
Helix aspersa
Latin
OBS

A gastropod (a class of Mollusca) of the family Helicidae.

Key term(s)
  • common gardensnail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Cornu aspersum
Latin
Helix aspersa
Latin
OBS

Gastéropode (classe de mollusques) de la famille des Helicidae.

Spanish

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Record 13 2018-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Liguus fasciatus
Latin
OBS

A gastropod (a class of Mollusca) of the family Orthalicidae.

Key term(s)
  • Florida tree snail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Liguus fasciatus
Latin
OBS

Gastéropode (classe de mollusques) de la famille des Orthalicidae.

Spanish

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Record 14 2017-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Restoration of Works of Art (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

[A mechanical crack] in the shape of a spiral that [is] caused by [the] release of stresses in the paint layers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Restauration d'œuvres d'art (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Craquelure de tension en forme de spirale qui est attribuable au relâchement des contraintes au sein des couches picturales.

Spanish

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Record 15 2016-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Worms and Related Organisms
  • Parasitoses
  • Animal Diseases
Universal entry(ies)
Dicrocoelium dendriticum
Latin
CONT

Dicrocoelium dendriticum is called the lancet liver fluke because of its characteristic shape. Unlike most other digenetic trematodes whose life cycles involve aquatic or marine hosts, the life cycle of this parasite is completely terrestrial involving a terrestrial snail as the first intermediate host and an ant as the second intermediate host. The definitive host, which includes sheep, cattle, goats, pigs and humans (rarely), is infected when it ingests ants that are infected with matacercariae. In the definitive host the parasite migrates into the bile duct and causes pathology similar to that caused by Clonorchis sinensis. This parasite is distributed throughout much of Europe and Asia, and it is also found in parts of North America and Australia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vers et organismes apparentés
  • Parasitoses
  • Maladies des animaux
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Dicrocoelium dendriticum
Latin
CONT

Dicrocoelium dendriticum ou petite douve du foie présente un cycle caractéristique à trois hôtes. Les œufs pondus dans les voies biliaires du mouton sont rejetés, avalés par un escargot. Il éclot dans le tube digestif et se développe directement en sporocyste puis passe à l'état cercaire puis métacercaire qui, enfermé dans du mucus, est rejeté par le pneumostome de l'escargot. Il peut être avalé par une fourmi et s’enkyste dans la cavité générale. Si la fourmi est mangée par un mouton, l'animal se fixera dans ses voies biliaires.

Spanish

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Record 16 2014-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Cryptomastix devia
Latin
OBS

A mollusc (order Gastropoda) of the family Polygyridae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Cryptomastix devia
Latin
OBS

Mollusque (ordre des gastéropodes) de la famille des Polygyridae.

Spanish

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Record 17 2014-10-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Bulinus globosus
Latin
CONT

Bulinus globosus ... is the intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium ... which causes urinary schistosomiasis in southern and eastern Africa.

OBS

A mollusc (order Gastropoda) of the family Planorbidae.

OBS

Bulinus globosus: There is no common name for this species of mollusc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Bulinus globosus
Latin
CONT

[...] Bulinus globosus, l'escargot hôte intermédiaire de la schistosomose.

OBS

Mollusque (ordre des gastéropodes) de la famille des Planorbidae.

OBS

Bulinus globosus : Il n’y a pas de nom commun pour désigner cette espèce de mollusques.

Spanish

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Record 18 2012-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Correspondence
CONT

Should the email fail to be delivered for any reason, the service can be set to automatically resend the document through another channel, such as regular mail or fax, depending on your customer's preference.

OBS

snail mail: A derogatory term for the postal service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets de correspondance (Postes)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Correspondencia (Correos)
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Record 19 2011-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Games and Toys (General)
CONT

Keypers/Fancy and Footloose: Plastic snail. Shell opens with key; character and several accessories stored inside. Can be locked. Comes with story book. Three models available.

OBS

Keypers/Fancy and Footloose™: A trademark of Tonka (China).

Key term(s)
  • Keypers/Fancy and Footloose

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
CONT

Keypers/Fancy and Footloose : Ensemble de jeu en plastique en forme d’escargot dont la coquille s’ouvre latéralement au moyen d’une clé, révélant une cavité pour ranger une figurine et plusieurs accessoires. Livret de contes inclus.

OBS

Keypers/Fancy and FootlooseMC : Marque de commerce de la société Tonka, China.

Spanish

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Record 20 2010-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Fisherola nuttalli
Latin
Lanx nuttalli
Latin
CONT

Fisherola nuttalli is a small pulmonate (lunged) snail in the family Lymnaeidae. It inhabits cold, unpolluted, medium to large streams with fast-flowing, well-oxygenated water and cobble and boulder substrate, and is generally found at the edges of rapids.

Key term(s)
  • greater Columbia-River limpet
  • giant Columbia-River limpet

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Fisherola nuttalli
Latin
Lanx nuttalli
Latin
OBS

Mollusque(escargot) d’eau douce de la famille des Lymnaeidae.

Spanish

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Record 21 2010-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
Universal entry(ies)
Allogona profunda
Latin
OBS

A snail of the family Polygyridae.

Key term(s)
  • broad banded forestsnail
  • broad-banded forest snail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Allogona profunda
Latin
OBS

Escargot de la famille des Polygyridae.

Spanish

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Record 22 2006-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Aquaculture
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

A person that practices snail culture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Aquaculture
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Celui ou celle qui pratique l'héliciculture [soit l'élevage de l'escargot].

Spanish

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Record 23 2006-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

A large phylum of invertebrate animals that have a soft unsegmented body lacking segmented appendages and commonly protected by a calcareous shell secreted by a mantle which extends from the body wall usually as an enveloping fold ...

OBS

Mollusca include tooth shells, snails, mussels and other bivalves, octopuses, and related forms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Embranchement d’animaux invertébrés à corps mou composé d’une tête, d’une masse viscérale et d’un pied, le tout recouvert d’une membrane, le manteau, dont le rôle principal est de sécréter une coquille calcaire.

OBS

Le calmar, le poulpe, l'escargot, la moule, l'huître et les autres coquillages sont des mollusques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 24 2005-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
CONT

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists and fisheries scientists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
CONT

Le bigorneau est un mollusque marin dont l'apparence lui vaut le surnom d’escargot de mer.

Spanish

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Record 25 2005-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

An animal belonging to the Mollusca.

OBS

Mollusca: In present use (mainly following the classification proposed by Cuvier in 1788-1800), a phylum or sub-kingdom of animals, comprising the four classes Gastropoda (limpets, snails, etc.), Scaphopoda (tooth-shells), Cephalopoda (cuttlefish, etc.), and Lamellibranchia (oyster, mussel, etc.); the classes Cirrhopoda, Tunicata, and Brachiopoda, included by Cuvier among the Mollusca, are now placed elsewhere, and the Polyzoa have since Cuvier's time been added to the phylum and again removed.

CONT

shellfish: An aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Animal invertébré au corps mou.

CONT

Principaux mollusques : Céphalopodes : ammonite, argonaute, baculite, bélemnite, calmar(ou encornet), nautile, poulpe(ou pieuvre), seiche. Gastéropodes : buccin(ou trompette), casque, cérite, cône, doris, escargot(ou hélix, limaçon), fuseau, haliotide(ou ormeau), harpe, janthine, limace, limnée, littorine(ou bigorneau, vignot), mitre, murex(ou rocher), nérinée, nérite, olive, ombrelle, paludine, patelle, planorbe, pleurobranche, porcelaine, pourpre, pupa(ou maillot), strombe, terebellum, testacelle, triton(ou trompette), troque, turbinelle, turbo, turritelle, vermet. Lamellibranches : anodonte, avicule, huître(Ostracés), isocarde, lime, moule, mulette, palourde, pedum, peigne(ou pecten, coquille Saint-Jacques), pétoncle(ou amande de mer), pholade, pinne, praire, solen(ou manche de couteau), spondyle, taret, tridacne(ou bénitier), vénéricarde, vénus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
DEF

Filum extenso de invertebrados, incluyendo babosas, caracoles y otros de cuerpo blando, no segmentado, protegido en parte o totalmente por una concha.

OBS

Comparar con la clase Crustacea.

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Record 26 2005-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Ear
DEF

Portion of the inner ear concerned with hearing.

CONT

The spiral-shaped chamber within the inner ear. The conversion of the mechanical energy of a sound into electrochemical energy for transmission to the brain is performed in the cochlea by the basilar membrane and the organ of corti.

OBS

It is a spiraling, fluid-filled tunnel embedded in the temporal bone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oreille
DEF

Cavité spiralée qui ressemble à une coquille d’escargot déroulée; elle mesure environ 35 mm de long et 3 mm de diamètre au niveau de sa première spire.

OBS

Elle contient les cellules sensorielles auditives. Elle est la partie antérieure du labyrinthe dont la partie postérieure est le vestibule.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Oreja
DEF

Una de las cavidades que constituyen el laberinto del oído de los vertebrados, que en los mamíferos es un conducto arrollado en espiral.

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Record 27 2004-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

Any of a large number of small, gastropod mollusks, especially the ones resembling a land snail, but having only a rudimentary internal shell buried in the mantle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Mollusque terrestre(gastéropodes), analogue à l'escargot, mais sans coquille.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 28 1994-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
  • Veterinary Medicine
OBS

Family Lymnaeidae

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
  • Médecine vétérinaire
DEF

Mollusque gastéropode pulmoné des eaux douces

OBS

Type de la famille Lymnaeidae

OBS

Petit escargot vecteur de la douve du foie.

Spanish

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Record 29 1988-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
OBS

Live-bearing viviparous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés

Spanish

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Record 30 1988-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
OBS

ramshorn snail: a snail of the genus Planorbis often used as a scavenger in aquariums.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
OBS

Planorbe.

OBS

Espèce d’escargot, gastropode pulmoné, type de la famille des Planorbidés.

Spanish

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Record 31 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons

Spanish

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