英语词汇“murex”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

murex

释义

murex|ˈmjʊərɛks|
Pl. murices |ˈmjʊərɪsiːz|, also murexes.
[a. L. mūrex (pl. mūricēs); prob. cogn. w. Gr. µύαξ (:—prehistoric *musak-) sea-mussel.]
A kind of shell-fish, the animal of which yields a purple dye.
1589Greene Tullies Loue (1616) E 2 b, [Will] no color content your eye, but such as is stained by the fish Murex?1698M. Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 74 There were but few Shells; but amongst them there was a Murex which dies purple.1757Dyer Fleece ii. 599 He beheld The wounded murex strike a purple stain.1851Woodward Mollusca i. 106 The murices appear to form only one-third of a whirl annually.1889Westgarth Austral. Progr. 316 Spinous murexes went in basketfuls for a shilling.
attrib.1605B. Jonson Masque of Blackness, All hauing their lights burning out of whelks, or murex shells.

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