snail; Taiwan pr. [gua1]; see 蝸牛|蜗牛[wo1 niu2]

(anatomy) cochlea

humble abode; to live (in a tiny, cramped space)

humble abode

to spiral

worm (mechanical engineering)

(anatomy) round window (one of the two openings from the middle ear into the inner ear)

snail

to advance at a snail's pace

worm-gear pair; worm drive; worm and worm gear

cochlear implant

fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house

lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom); fig. petty squabbling

lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox (idiom); fig. to move at a snail's pace; to make slow progress

giant African snail (Lissachatina fulica)