garden snail

/ˌgɑrdn sneɪl/

Other forms: garden snails

Definitions of garden snail

1. noun

   any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests
   types:

   Helix aspersa, brown snail

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

   Helix hortensis

   a kind of garden snail

   type of:

   snail

   freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell