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whelk

/welk, hwelk/US // wɛlk, ʰwɛlk //UK // (wɛlk) //

海螺,海螺号,海螺的作用,麦穗

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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.