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Whelk

noun
1.
Large marine snail much used as food in Europe.
2.
Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell.





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"Whelk" Quotes from Famous Books



... cradle to the grave; time writes no wrinkles there. In the army everywhere, when the description of a person is written down, the relative number of volutes and coniferous finger-tips is noted. It is called taking the "whelk striae," the fusiform being called "rice baskets," and the volutes "peck measures." A person unable to write, the form of signature which defies personation or repudiation is required in certain domestic cases, as in the sale of children or women. Often when a child ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various


Words linked to "Whelk" :   seafood, Buccinidae, snail, seasnail, family Buccinidae


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