garden snail

1. 1.

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

   Broadersnail

   Narrowerbrown snailHelix hortensis

   Part ofHelix

Questions about garden snail

What does garden snail mean?

garden snail means "any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix; often destructive pests".

Is garden snail a common word?

garden snail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.