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Definition of Helix pomatia
1. Noun. One of the chief edible snails.
Generic synonyms: Snail
Group relationships: Genus Helix, Helix
Terms within: Escargot, Snail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helix Pomatia
Literary usage of Helix pomatia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Mucin of helix pomatia,*—According to HA Landwehr, when the mucin of helix pomatia
is treated with 1 per cent, sulphuric acid, it yields grupe-sugar, ..."
2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"... SNAIL (helix pomatia). WHEN the shell has its apex directed upwards, and its
aperture downwards and towards the reader, its spire, as is the case with ..."
3. A Junior Course of Practical Zoology by Arthur Milnes Marshall (1899)
"helix pomatia. • THE snail is a terrestrial animal, feeding on leaves and other
vegetable matter which it rasps off with its toothed tongue or ..."
4. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Side view of a Snail, helix pomatia, the animal being expanded -211 109. ...
helix pomatia, with the pulmonary chamber cut open . 214 111. ..."
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