Edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic; SYN. snail.

ETYM Old Eng. snaile, as. snaegel, snegel, snaegl; akin to German schnecke, Old High Germ. snecko, Dan. snegl, Icel. snigill.
Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell.
Air-breathing gastropod mollusk with a spiral shell. There are thousands of species, on land and in water. The typical snails of the genus Helix have two species in Europe. The common garden snail h. aspersa is very destructive to plants.
The Roman snail Helix pomatia is “corralled” for the gourmet food market. Overcollection has depleted the population. The French eat as much as 5 kg/11 lb of snails per capita each year. + prikaži više