Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any snail of the family Helicidæ.

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Examples

  • In 1952, he started publishing Gastropodia; the 1st paper in the 1st issue was titled: "Pulmonata, Xanthonycidae: comparative sexological studies of the North American land-snail, Monadenia fidelis Gray – a seeming ally of Mexican helicoids."

    Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008

  • In 1952, he started publishing Gastropodia; the 1st paper in the 1st issue was titled: "Pulmonata, Xanthonycidae: comparative sexological studies of the North American land-snail, Monadenia fidelis Gray – a seeming ally of Mexican helicoids."

    Sexologist of snails AYDIN 2008

  • A gentleman fixed a land-snail, with the mouth of the shell upward, in a chink of a rock.

    The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881

  • The desert on both sides of the Nile is inhabited by a land-snail — of which I have counted eighty, in estimation, on a single shrub barely a foot high — and thousands of its shells are swept along and finally buried in the drifts by every wind.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874

  • The animal lives in water; consequently, instead of lungs he has gills: [Footnote: The land-snail has lungs.] these are those thin, finely-streaked plates which make

    The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854

  • The desert on both sides of the Nile is inhabited by a land-snail -- of which I have counted eighty, in estimation, on a single shrub barely a foot high -- and thousands of its shells are swept along and finally buried in the drifts by every wind.

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

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