螺

Meaning

螺 centers on a small, edible freshwater mollusk with a helical shell. The spiral shape is the key idea, and the meaning extends naturally to anything coiled like a snail shell.

• 螺子らし

  screw

• 螺旋らせん
  N1

  spiral; helix

• 栄螺さざえ

  turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

• 螺つぶ

  whelk (esp. Neptunea and Buccinum spp.)

• 螺にし

  small spiral-shelled snail; spiral shellfish

• 田螺たにし

  pond snail (Viviparidae spp.)

• 螺鈿らでん

  nacre; mother of pearl

• 法螺ほら

  boasting; bragging; big talk

• アルキメデスの螺線アルキメデスのらせん

  Archimedean spiral

• サラサ馬蹄螺サラサばていら

  Tectus maximus (species of top shell)

• 二重螺旋にじゅうらせん

  double helix (structure of DNA)

• 姫蝦夷法螺ひめえぞぼら

  arthritic neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea arthritica)

• 対数螺線たいすうらせん

  logarithmic spiral; equiangular spiral

• 擬蝦夷法螺えぞぼらもどき

  double-sculptured neptune (species of whelk, Neptunea intersculpta)

• 沖螺おきにし

  warty frog shell (Bursa bufonia dunkeri)

• 疣螺いぼにし

  Thais clavigera (species of rock shell)

• 砑螺貝つめたがい

  bladder moon shell (Glossaulax didyma)

• 碧螺春へきらしゅん

  biluochun (green tea var. grown in Jiangsu, China)

• 竜天栄螺りゅうてんさざえ

  tapestry turban (species of turban shell, Turbo petholatus)

• 糸巻法螺いとまきぼら

  trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium)

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