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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
Example Sentences
Early research suggests the mucus might have anticancer abilities too: garden snail mucus successfully inhibited skin cancer cell growth in a lab.
The snail eventually delivered right-coiling offspring, which were used to show that the rare left-spiralling shell of some garden snails is sometimes a developmental accident, rather than an inherited condition.
He is an inveterate loser who exhibits all the forthrightness of a garden snail.
Most Americans are familiar with the French version of snails: escargot, your common garden snail, cooked in butter and flecked with herbs.
What works better is showing how weird, wondrous, complicated and incomprehensible even ordinary things, like garden snails, can be.
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