edible snail

English Thesaurus

1. one of the chief edible snails (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	snail,
definition	:	freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus helix, helix,
definition	:	type genus of the family Helicidae (noun.animal)

substance holonym	:	escargot, snail,
definition	:	edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic (noun.food)