lelemes noun English. A medium-sized (ca. 3.5 cm. long), freshwater snail prized as food. Example sentence: Subanen. Kig lelemes, kaas piningalan dun lelemes, pu' duuni getaw milemes dun, kali' peglaam dun, pu' melegen gupia sekaten. English. The snail is so-called because there was a person who died by drowning because of one, when he tried to get one, because it was so hard to pull off the rock. Generic. seda'