Murex

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

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murex
mūrex, ĭcis, m. I The purple-fish , Plin. 9, 36, 60, § 125; Enn. ap. Ap. Mag. p. 299, 11 (Heduph...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
murex
mūrex icis, m the purple-fish (a prickly shellfish): Baianus, H., O.—The purple dye, purple (from t...

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