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Webster 1913 Edition

Murex

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Mu′rex

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Noun.
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pl.
Murices
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[L., the purple fish.]
(Zool.)
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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