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GARDEN SNAIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("garden snail" is a kind of...):

snail (freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garden snail"):

brown snail; Helix aspersa (serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)

Helix hortensis (a kind of garden snail)

Holonyms ("garden snail" is a member of...):

genus Helix; Helix (type genus of the family Helicidae)

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