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HELIX ASPERSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Helix aspersa mean? 

HELIX ASPERSA (noun)
  The noun HELIX ASPERSA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HELIX ASPERSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HELIX ASPERSA (noun)


Sense 1

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 ("Helix aspersa" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Helix aspersa" is a member of...):

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


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