BROWN SNAIL

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Meaning:

Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

Synonyms:

brown snail; Helix aspersa

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Nouns denoting animals

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

garden snail (any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests)

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

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

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