garden snail
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Tiny physas and succineas, no larger than shot, live among big paludinas as large as a garden snail, while all sizes of the larger varieties are found, from microscopic atoms to the perfect adult.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
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