garden snail

garden snail

n (Animals) 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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garden snail - any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pestssnail - freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shellgenus Helix, Helix - type genus of the family Helicidaebrown snail, Helix aspersa - serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distributionHelix hortensis - a kind of garden snail