land snail

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land snail

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Inherited from Middle English lond snayl (attested in the plural londe snayles), equivalent to land + snail. Compare water snail, sea snail, etc.

noun land snails · land-snail · landsnail

Any species of snail that lives on land (Caenogastropoda spp. etc.). The land-snail Achatinella evolved a thousand or more species.

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noun species of snail that lives on land

中文	陸生蝸牛 /陆生蜗牛 lùshēng wōniú, 蝸牛 /蜗牛 wōniú
Deutsch	Landschnecke
Tiếng Việt	ốc sên

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@misc{land_snail_2026,
  title = {land snail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/land%20snail},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}