garden snail

British  

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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Example Sentences

Early research suggests the mucus might have anticancer abilities too: garden snail mucus successfully inhibited skin cancer cell growth in a lab.

From National Geographic • Jan. 8, 2024

He is an inveterate loser who exhibits all the forthrightness of a garden snail.

From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022

That’s what I enjoy, and I’ll do it for any topic that catches my attention—whether it’s the nature of jerkitude, garden snail cognition, robot rights or the moral behavior of ethics professors.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020

Most of the snail mucin used for skin care involves the Cryptomphalus aspersa species, a.k.a. the common garden snail.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2018

Helix aspersa, for example, our large garden snail, has been naturalised in many foreign countries by French and Portuguese sailors, who had taken them on board their ships as food.

From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis