helix hortensis

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   a kind of garden snail

   Broadergarden snail

   Part ofHelix

Questions about helix hortensis

What does helix hortensis mean?

helix hortensis means "a kind of garden snail".

Is helix hortensis a common word?

helix hortensis 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.