GENUS HELIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Helix mean? 

• GENUS HELIX (noun)
  The noun GENUS HELIX has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Helicidae

  Familiarity information: GENUS HELIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HELIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Helicidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Helix; Helix

Hypernyms ("genus Helix" is a kind of...):

mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)

Meronyms (members of "genus Helix"):

edible snail; Helix pomatia (one of the chief edible snails)

garden snail (any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests)

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 ("genus Helix" is a member of...):

family Helicidae; Helicidae (land snails including the common edible snail and some pests)