Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of land-snails, of the family Helicidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
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Examples
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Last year I had identified them as Achatina achatina, but a reader subsequently indicated that they were actually Archachatina marginata.
Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009
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Last year I had identified them as Achatina achatina, but a reader subsequently indicated that they were actually Archachatina marginata.
They might be giants—they are AYDIN 2009
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I am not familiar with the taxonomy of giant African snails, but I am assuming these are Achatina achatina.
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I am not familiar with the taxonomy of giant African snails, but I am assuming these are Achatina achatina.
Archive 2008-01-01 AYDIN 2008
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Tall and tan and fat and ugly, achatina fulica is not something you'd want to behold on the sands of Ipanema.
Attack Of the Aliens 2007
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The species at that time was uncertain but now has been determined by specialists in that group as _Cercoptera achatina_ Germ.
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[Footnote 1: Dr. Kathleen G. Doering, at the University of Kansas identified the spittle bug from the Illinois pecans as _Clastoptera achatina_, a species not hitherto recognized as an important pecan pest.
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