Murex Definition

myo͝orĕks
murexes, murices
noun
Any of a genus (Murex) of flesh-eating snails, found in warm salt waters and having a rough, spiny shell: some species yield a purple substance formerly valued as a dye.
Webster's New World

Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.

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pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Muricinae "” the murex gastropods once used to produce Tyrian purple.

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Singular:
murex
Plural:
murexes

Origin of Murex

  • New Latin mūrex from Latin gastropod producing Tyrian purple probably of pre-Roman Mediterranean origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek μυαχ (muakh, “sea mussel"), from μῦς (mus).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin murex

    From Wiktionary

Murex Sentence Examples

  • With regard to natural products the country has few worth mentioning; minerals are found in the Lebanon, but not in any quantity; traces of amber-digging have been discovered on the coast; and the purple shell (murex trunculus and brandaris) is still plentiful.

  • Oysters do not flourish in water containing less than 3% salt; and hence they are absent from the Baltic. The chief enemies of oysters are the dog-whelk, Purpura lapillus, and the whelk-tingle, Murex erinaceus, which bore through the shells.

  • The gland has been found in both sub-orders of the Pectinibranchia, in Cyclostoma and Cypraea among the Taenioglossa, in Hemifusus, Cassis, Nassa, Murex, Fasciolariidae, Turbinellidae, Olividae, Marginellidae and Conidae among the Stenoglossa.

  • It is famous for its purple-yielding murex, pearls and mother-of-pearl.

  • This was properly the name of the shellfish (Purpura, Murex) which yielded the famous Tyrian dye, the particular mark of the dress of emperors, kings, chief magistrates and other dignitaries, whence "the purple" still signifies the rank of emperors or kings.

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