land shell

noun

A land snail; a terrestrial gastropod.

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Meanings

nounland shell (plural land shells)

plural land shells

  1. A land snail; a terrestrial gastropod.

    Several pretty beetles, a superb "bug," and a few nice land-shells were obtained, and I returned in the afternoon well satisfied with my first trial of the promised land.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 199
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