land snail

noun

1. 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.
2. any terrestrial snail.

Example Sentences

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

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

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