Definitions for murex

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murex mu·rex

Spelling: [myoo r-eks]

IPA: /ˈmyʊər ɛks/

Murex is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in murex (emrux).

Definitions for murex

noun

1. any marine gastropod of the genus Murex, common in tropical seas, certain species of which yield the royal purple dye valued by the ancients.
2. a shell used as a trumpet, as in representations of Tritons in art.
3. purplish red.

Origin of murex

1580-90; New Latin, Latin mūrex the shellfish that yielded Tyrian purple dye

Examples for murex

The genus murex is supposed to have been the first species indicated by Aristotle.

They eat turtle and drink claret, but who fished up the murex?

There were also a few shrimps, two species of murex, and a volute.

The genus Urosalpinx is closely allied to murex and Trophon.

But murex or no murex, Purple was discovered by my ancestors.

We find this in the case of a kind of snail (murex brandaris).

This genus stands in the same relation to Cerithium as the Typhis to murex.

It was produced by a combination of the secretions of the murex and buccinum.

Some, again, are smooth, others nearly as rough as the murex trunculus.

Certainly not; the flesh of the murex can provide a pigment as well as food.