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land snail

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noun
any gastropod of the widely distributed order Stylommatophora, containing usually small, brown or mottled hermaphroditic snails: some more colorful species, introduced into North America, are agricultural pests.
any terrestrial snail.
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How to use land snail in a sentence

  • A gentleman fixed a land-snail, with the mouth of the shell upward, in a chink of a rock.

  • The land Snail does not own a door, but he makes one when he goes to sleep for the winter.

    On the Seashore|R. Cadwallader Smith
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