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land shell

land shell noun: a land snail; a terrestrial gastropod.

Noun

land shell (plural land shells)

  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

Forms of land shell

pluralland shells

Questions about land shell

What does land shell mean?
Land shell means a land snail; a terrestrial gastropod.
What part of speech is land shell?
Land shell is a noun.
What is the plural of land shell?
The plural of land shell is land shells.

Words near land shell in the dictionary

  1. land sakes alive
  2. land scrip
  3. land scrips
  4. land shark
  5. land sharks
  6. land shell
  7. land shells
  8. land shrimp
  9. land shrimps
  10. land sickness
  11. land slug

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