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Snæfellsnes
Snæfellsnes is a roughly 100-km peninsula in western Iceland, home to the 1,446 m ice-capped Snæfellsjökull stratovolcano, Snæfellsjökull National Park, and Iceland's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (2025).
Snagglepuss
Snagglepuss is a pink Hanna-Barbera cartoon mountain lion, debuted 1959 on Quick Draw McGraw and starring on The Yogi Bear Show from 1961, voiced by Daws Butler in a Bert Lahr style, known for "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" and "Exit, stage left!" and DC's 2018 gay playwright reinvention.
SNAI1
SNAI1 (SNAIL, Snail1) is a human zinc-finger transcriptional repressor gene on chromosome 20q13.2 encoding a 264-amino-acid protein that represses E-cadherin, drives EMT, gastrulation, metastasis, and cancer stemness.
SNAI2
SNAI2, commonly known as SLUG, is a human gene on chromosome 8 encoding a zinc finger transcription factor required for neural crest and melanocyte development.
Snail
Snail: a gastropod mollusc with a coiled calcium carbonate shell, found on land, in freshwater and the sea; Cambrian fossils over 520 million years old, radula feeding, mucus locomotion, and heavy conservation pressures.
Snail allergy and dermal hazards
Snail allergy is an IgE-mediated food allergy to snail proteins in which house dust mites are the primary sensitizing allergen, often causing severe asthma and anaphylaxis after eating escargot.
Snail cam
The snail cam, also called a drop cam, is a radial cam with a spiral edge that lifts a follower slowly and drops it suddenly, driving punches and hammers.
Snail caviar
Snail caviar, also called escargot caviar or white caviar, is processed eggs of edible land snails (Cornu aspersum), pearly white 3–6 mm pearls with earthy, mushroom-like flavor, priced around $1,900–$3,000 per kilogram.
Snail darter controversy
The snail darter controversy was a 1970s legal conflict in which the endangered snail darter fish halted the nearly completed Tellico Dam in Tennessee until Congress exempted it in 1979.
Snail Mail (musician)
Snail Mail is the indie rock project of Baltimore guitarist Lindsey Jordan (born 1999): EP Habit (2016), albums Lush (2018) and Valentine (2021) on Matador, vocal polyp surgery, and third album Ricochet (2026).
SNAIL parametric amplifier
The SNAIL parametric amplifier (SPA) is a quantum-limited, Josephson-junction-based three-wave-mixing parametric amplifier introduced at Yale University in 2018, used as the first amplification stage in superconducting qubit readout.
Snail slime in cosmetics
Snail slime in cosmetics, or snail secretion filtrate (snail mucin), is mucus from Helix/Cryptomphalus aspersa snails used as a K-beauty hydrating skincare ingredient, with limited clinical evidence.
Snail trail
A snail trail, also called a snail track, is a dark worm-like discoloration of the silver grid fingers on silicon solar cells, usually along invisible microcracks.
Snailfish
Snailfishes (Liparidae) are a family of marine ray-finned fishes with scale-less, elongate bodies and a sucking disk, holding the vertebrate depth record at 8,336 m.
Snails as food
Snails as food: edible terrestrial gastropods (Helix, Achatina, Archachatina) eaten since prehistory, farmed as heliciculture; high protein, low fat, lower carbon footprint than beef, with food-safety and regulatory considerations.
Snails for algae control and tank cleaning
Snails used for algae control and tank cleaning are gastropods added to aquaria to graze algae, diatoms, and detritus from glass, rock, plants, and sand.
Snake
Snake (Serpentes): limbless squamate reptile, over 4,000 species on every continent except Antarctica; moves by four locomotion modes using belly scales, dates to Triassic squamate origins, causes 138,000 snakebite deaths yearly, with over 30% of Viperidae and Elapidae threatened.
Snake (1998 video game)
Snake (1998 video game): Nokia's preinstalled mobile game, designed and programmed by Finnish engineer Taneli Armanto in 1997 for the Nokia 6110; 84×48 monochrome display, number-key controls, carried on an estimated 350–400 million phones.
Snake (video game genre)
Snake (video game genre): line-growing arcade genre from the 1976 Gremlin game Blockade; Nokia's 1997 6110 version by Taneli Armanto reached ~350 million phones; later Slither.io and .io variants.
Snake (蛇) (zodiac)
Snake (蛇, shé) is the sixth animal of the Chinese zodiac, paired with the earthly branch 巳 and called the "Little Dragon". Snake years include 2025 (Wood Snake, 29 Jan 2025–16 Feb 2026), 2013, 2001, 1989; symbolizes wisdom, rebirth, transformation.
Snake case
Snake case, often written snake_case, is a naming convention that joins words with underscores and lowercase letters, as in first_name, and is the dominant convention in Python and Rust.
Snake charming
Snake charming is a South Asian street performance in which a sapera plays the been or pungi before a cobra, which sways as if dancing.
Snake Eater (song)
"Snake Eater" is the James Bond-style opening theme of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004), written by Norihiko Hibino, sung by Cynthia Harrell, famous for the ladder climb, and re-recorded by Harrell for the 2025 Delta remake.
Snake Eyes (1998 film)
Snake Eyes (1998) is a Brian De Palma crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise, about an Atlantic City detective investigating the Secretary of Defense's assassination at a boxing match, famous for its opening long take.
Snake Eyes (2021 film)
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) is a Paramount reboot directed by Robert Schwentke, starring Henry Golding as Snake Eyes and Andrew Koji as Storm Shadow; it earned $40.1 million worldwide on an $88 million budget and received mixed-to-negative reviews.
Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe)
Snake Eyes is the silent ninja commando of Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise, debuting in 1982 as an unpainted black toy mold, defined by Larry Hama's Marvel comics, and later played on film by Ray Park and Henry Golding.
Snake Farm of Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute
Snake Farm of Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (สถานเสาวภา), Bangkok Snake Farm, QSMI: Thai Red Cross antivenom research facility opened to the public in 1923, world's second-oldest snake farm, producing seven monovalent and two polyvalent antivenoms.
Snake fungal disease
Snake fungal disease (ophidiomycosis), caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, is a skin infection of snakes with crusty lesions; long present in North America and Europe, usually mild in wild snakes.
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (蛇形刁手, Se ying diu sau) is a 1978 Hong Kong kung fu comedy, Yuen Woo-ping's directorial debut, starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang-lee; it made Chan a star and founded the kung fu comedy with Drunken Master.
Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (猴形扣手)
Snake in the Monkey's Shadow (猴形扣手) is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu comedy film directed by Cheung Sum, starring John Cheung Ng-long and Wilson Tong, and released in February 1979.