whelk 的定义
- 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
等同于 shellfish
等同于 weal
等同于 mollusk
更多whelk例句
- 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.
- Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
- The Whelk, however, is a clever burglar; he knows how to make a way into the hardest of shelly houses.
- Now we will look at a shell-builder, the Whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.
- The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster.