murex
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murex
- /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/ US
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Borrowed from Latin murex.
noun murexes · murices
- Any member of the genus Murex of marine gastropods. The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.
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Talk about this word "murex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/murex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. murex. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/murex "murex." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/murex.
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@misc{murex_2026,
title = {murex},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/murex},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
