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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 distribution
Familiarity information: HELIX ASPERSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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