1. (noun) mud-flat snail, mudsnail, Amphibola crenata - a Northern dialect word for a species of air breathing gastopod which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea. A very common univalve mollusc on tidal mudflats. Has a wrinkled-looking shell and was eaten in large quantities.
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