land shell

noun

land shell

noun

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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