garden snail
noun
any of several land snails common in gardens, where they may become pests, esp Helix aspersa, and sometimes including Cepaea nemoralis, common in woods and hedgerows
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How to use garden snail in a sentence
Want of water will cause the common garden snail to go into a state of the most complete and curious lethargy.
The common garden snail, so destructive to our vegetables, belongs to the genus Helix.
A Conchological Manual | George Brettingham SowerbyIt belongs in all our scientific classifications to the group of lung-breathing mollusks, like the common garden snail.
The Evolutionist at Large | Grant AllenThe ogre of the ocean and the garden snail are second cousins!
Within the Deep | R. Cadwallader Smith
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