English–Spanish
“snail” in Spanish
How to say “snail” in Spanish
“Snail” in Spanish is caracol.
Small soft-bodied mollusk with a coiled spiral shell.
Example sentences with caracol
La espiral de la concha tiene forma de caracol.
The spiral of the shell is snail-shaped.
Tips for using caracol
- On Spanish menus caracoles often means edible snails served as tapas and in everyday speech caracol commonly appears in similes for slowness, as in más lento que un caracol.
Other Spanish words for “snail”
En el jardín vi muchos caracoles después de la lluvia.
In the garden I saw many snails after the rain.