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GARDEN SNAIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does garden snail mean?
• GARDEN SNAIL (noun)
The noun GARDEN SNAIL has 1 sense:
1. any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests
Familiarity information: GARDEN SNAIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("garden snail" is a kind of...):
snail (freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garden snail"):
brown snail; Helix aspersa (serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)
Helix hortensis (a kind of garden snail)
Holonyms ("garden snail" is a member of...):
genus Helix; Helix (type genus of the family Helicidae)
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