land snail
Americannoun
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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.
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any terrestrial snail.
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Florida agriculture officials are quarantining a section of Broward County to try to wipe out the giant African land snail, an invasive species that threatens the state’s agriculture and can cause meningitis.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
A thousand species of land snail worldwide are known to be at risk of extinction.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
In Florida, the African land snail existed largely in Miami-Dade County, although hundreds of the pests were found in Broward County in 2014.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
"The workers found an unmarked box containing a giant African land snail amongst the boxes ready to be distributed for delivery across the country," he explained.
From Fox News ● Aug. 22, 2021
The desert on both sides of the Nile is inhabited by a land snail, and thousands of its shells are swept along and finally buried in the drifts by every wind.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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