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Helix pomatia   Listen
Helix pomatia

noun
1.
One of the chief edible snails.  Synonym: edible snail.






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"Helix pomatia" Quotes from Famous Books



... shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea. And I find that several species in this state withstand uninjured an immersion in sea-water during seven days. One shell, the Helix pomatia, after having been thus treated, and again hybernating, was put into sea-water for twenty days and perfectly recovered. During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Helix pomatia" :   snail, genus Helix, edible snail, helix, escargot



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