(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:20:24

Mu"rex (?), n.; pl. Murices (#). [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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