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Definition of Helix aspersa
1. Noun. Serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helix Aspersa
Literary usage of Helix aspersa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"... The immediate neighbourhood of the sea appears frequently to have the effect
of dwarfing land Mollusca. Thus the var. conoidea of helix aspersa, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
"Second Experiment with helix aspersa. A pair of helix aspersa having been procured
in the act of copulation on the 19th of May 1852, they were placed in ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"helix aspersa, the shell and entire animal removed from the shell . . . . .
.71 ,, 17. Dissection of helix aspersa .... 75 ,, 18. Nervous systems of Helix ..."
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