Roman Snail Shell
| View Cart ⇗ | Info
Helix pomatia. “A large-shelled, edible” snail, also called the Burgundy snail or escargot when used in cooking. —Whitney, 1889.
This illustration shows only the shell and not the animal. It is an air-breathing, land snail.
Keywords
shell, snail, escargot, Roman snail, Helix pomatia, land snail, Burgundy snail, air-breathing, edible snailSource
William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5724
Downloads
2755×2996, 3.6 MiB
941×1024, 541.7 KiB
588×640, 241.4 KiB
294×320, 71.0 KiB