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

Most Americans are familiar with the French version of snails: escargot, your common garden snail, cooked in butter and flecked with herbs.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Nifty theories of consciousness come crashing down around your toes when you try to apply them in a principled way to the case of the garden snail.

From Scientific American • Jul. 6, 2020

Actual experimentation declares that the garden snail can see a moving white object, such as a ball of cotton or twine, at a distance of two feet.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James