garden snail


noun
  1. 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 Sowerby
  • It belongs in all our scientific classifications to the group of lung-breathing mollusks, like the common garden snail.

  • The ogre of the ocean and the garden snail are second cousins!

    Within the Deep | R. Cadwallader Smith