murex

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This is the most expensive article of our manufactures; it is the belly part of the calf's skin, which being white, admits of a dye from the murex--a shell fish, very common on our shores Have you money?"

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  1. noun Any of various marine gastropods of the genus Murex common in tropical seas and having rough spiny shells, especially M. trunculus, the source of Tyrian purple.

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  • To assess the effects of the reserve network, we generated a larval export model and tested its predictions through observations of currents and bi-annual density counts of juvenile rock scallops and murex snails within reserves and fishing grounds prior and after reserve establishment (summer 2002-summer 2004). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • For black murex, sizes fell into two categories: juveniles and reproductively mature adults. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Given that rock scallops are harder to detect than black murex (when closed they resemble rocks), we assume an even higher statistical power for detection of changes in population densities of black murex. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Univariate and multivariate tests for the analysis of temporal changes in density of juvenile black murex found within monitored reserve and fishing areas. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • This is the most expensive article of our manufactures; it is the belly-part of the calf's skin, which being white, admits of a dye from the murex--a shell fish, very common on our shores Have you money?" —  The Pacha of Many Tales
 

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  1. New Latin Mūrex, genus name, from Latin mūrex, purple-fish.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin murex, the purple-fish.
 

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/ˈmjurɛks/
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