BROWN SNAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown snail mean? 

• BROWN SNAIL (noun)
  The noun BROWN SNAIL has 1 sense:

1. serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

  Familiarity information: BROWN SNAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN SNAIL (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

brown snail; Helix aspersa

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)