HyperDic: brown_snail

English > 1 sense of the expression *brown snail*:
NOUN	animal	brown snail, Helix aspersa	serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings

English > *brown snail*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
Synonym	Helix aspersa
Member of	Helix, genus Helix	type genus of the family Helicidae
Broader	garden snail	Any of several inedible snails of the genus Helix
Spanish	caracol común
Catalan	cargol sapenc, Helix aspersa