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land_snail

land snail

English

A land snail

Alternative forms

  • land-snail, landsnail

Noun

land snail (plural land snails)

  1. Any species of snail that lives on land.
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 34:
      The land-snail Achatinella evolved a thousand or more species.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • (snail type): Oahu tree snail