murex 的定义
plural mu·ri·ces [myoor-uh-seez], /ˈmyʊər əˌsiz/, mu·rex·es.
- any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- a shell used as a trumpet, as in representations of Tritons in art.
- purplish red.
更多murex例句
- They have a real murex—the sea snail that got turned into Tyrian purple—from Phoenicia.
- He says that Tarentine muslins, woven from the filaments of the pinna dipped in the dye of the murex, rivalled those of Cos.
- They eat turtle and drink claret, but who fished up the murex?
- None of the Murex family are common, and they are seldom found alive.
- Trigonia and Inoceramus are found in almost all the zones: other forms less widely distributed are Murex and Turritella.
- The second wife of Hugh de Sade never stirred the pool of ink from which Petrarch fished his murex up.