murex
nounAny of various predatory marine gastropods of the family Muricidae, having rough spiny shells and including several species formerly used to produce the dye Tyrian purple.
nounA shell used as a trumpet, as in representations of tritons, in art.
noun. [capitalized] The typical genus of Mùricidæ.
nounA species of this genus.
nounPl. murexes or murices (-rek-sez,-ri-sēz). A caltrop.
proper nounA genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.
nounAny of the