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Helix pomatia

Edible \Ed"i*ble\, a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
--Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.

Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2.

Edible crab (Zo["o]l.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab ( Callinectes hastatus). See Crab.

Edible frog (Zo["o]l.), the common European frog ( Rana esculenta), used as food.

Edible snail (Zo["o]l.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.

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Helix pomatia

Helix pomatia, common names the Burgundy snail, Roman snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae. It is a European species. In the English language it is called by the French name escargot when used in cooking (escargot literally means 'snail'). Although this species is highly prized as a food it is difficult to cultivate and rarely farmed commercially.

Usage examples of "helix pomatia".

And I found that several species did in this state withstand uninjured an immersion in sea-water during seven days: one of these shells was the Helix pomatia, and after it had again hybernated I put it in sea-water for twenty days, and it perfectly recovered.