whelk
IPA: hwˈɛɫk
noun
- Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
- (archaic) Pimple.
- A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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Examples of "whelk" in Sentences
- The Flipside Of The Shameless Whelk 14.
- Effects of the habitat on the dog whelk.
- Redrawn from an engraved whelk shell by artist Herb Roe.
- The knobbed whelk has two pairs of tentacles on the head.
- The dog whelk lives in rocky shores, and estuarine conditions.
- Prey are chosen by the whelk according to their species and size.
- Predators of the dog whelk include various species of crabs and birds.
- The shell of the knobbed whelk is dextral, meaning that it is right handed.
- The Wrinkled Whelk was declared the state seashell of Massachusetts in 1987.
- A knobbed whelk opens to the right while a lightning whelk opens to the left.
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