garden snail

noun

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

Want of water will cause the common garden snail to go into a state of the most complete and curious lethargy.

The common garden Snail, so destructive to our vegetables, belongs to the genus Helix.

It belongs in all our scientific classifications to the group of lung-breathing mollusks, like the common garden snail.

The ogre of the ocean and the Garden Snail are second cousins!

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