whelk

• Then he appeared in Zamosht, in the town itself, wild, gaunt, decaying , the dead eye bulging—like a whelk. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• Email This is a reminder that the conch and whelk-taking season has ended. —  Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
• It may be that the Hermit devours as a preliminary the accommodating mollusc whose tenement it covets; but it would become a real parasite only on the supposition that the whelk was of such size as to keep providing for it throughout life, and that the external and internal organs of the crab should disappear, while it lived henceforth, by simple imbibition, upon the elaborated juices of its host. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• He is enabled by this means to hold on firmly to any shell, no matter how badly it may fit him, which he chooses for his temporary habitation As he spoke, the Captain extracted with some little difficulty the buccaneer crab from the whelk-shell, showing its peculiar formation, quite unlike that of the others. —  Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
• The facts recall the familiar case of the hermit-crab, which protects its soft tail by tucking it into the empty shell of a periwinkle or a whelk or some other sea-snail, and that case leads on to the elaboration known as commensalism, where the hermit-crab fixes sea-anemones on the back of its borrowed house. —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

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