Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common name of Helix aspersa or hortensis, a European species of snail with a white lip and a number of reddish lines.
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Examples
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But as we have been speaking so much of sea-creatures, I think we will now leave the oysters, cockles, mussels, and razor-fish, and choose the familiar garden-snail as our specimen of the Mollusca, or Soft-bodied
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham
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The common garden-snail is a homing animal, and it will always return to
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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(Helix nemoralis), while of the equally common garden-snail (Helix hortensis) ninety varieties have been described.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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So few of the fellows in our time had the imagination of a garden-snail. "
The Wrecker 1898
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"Oh! tut, tut!" said the common garden-snail, "I'm more in demand than any other snail in the world; you'll find me all over the flower-beds in the summer, and in the winter I lie in the wood-shed in a cabbage tub.
In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales August Strindberg 1880
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