murex
/myoor-eks/US // ˈmyʊər ɛks //UK // (ˈmjʊərɛks) //
牛皮癣,牛皮纸,牛皮箱,牛皮癣患者
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural mu·ri·ces [myoor-uh-seez], /ˈmyʊər əˌsiz/, mu·rex·es.
- : any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
- : a shell used as a trumpet, as in representations of Tritons in art.
- : purplish red.
Examples
They have a real murex—the sea snail that got turned into Tyrian purple—from Phoenicia.
He says that Tarentine muslins, woven from the filaments of the pinna dipped in the dye of the murex, rivalled those of Cos.
They eat turtle and drink claret, but who fished up the murex?
None of the Murex family are common, and they are seldom found alive.
Trigonia and Inoceramus are found in almost all the zones: other forms less widely distributed are Murex and Turritella.
The second wife of Hugh de Sade never stirred the pool of ink from which Petrarch fished his murex up.
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