Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Murices"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Murex \Mu"rex\, n.; pl. {Murices}. [L., the purple fish.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently
spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the
rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.
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