noun

• A plant-eating European freshwater snail that has a flat spiral shell.

  Family Planorbidae: several genera

  ‘Among the natural wonders that should be protected are stag beetles, and ramshorn snails; habitats including salt meadows and oak woods; and rare plants such as the lady's slipper orchid.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Colombian ramshorn snails lay their eggs in a blob often larger than the snail that produced it.’
  • ‘A generation ago, the European Red Ramshorn Snail was a common sight in freshwater aquariums.’