whelk / wɛlk, ʰwɛlk /

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whelk 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. any of several large, spiral-shelled, marine gastropods of the family Buccinidae, especially Buccinum undatum, that is used for food in Europe.

whelk 近义词

whelk

等同于 shellfish

whelk

等同于 weal

whelk

等同于 mollusk

whelk 的近义词 6

更多whelk例句

  1. As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.
  2. Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
  3. The Whelk, however, is a clever burglar; he knows how to make a way into the hardest of shelly houses.
  4. Now we will look at a shell-builder, the Whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.
  5. The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster.