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murices


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Murex  \Mu"rex\,  n.;  pl  {Murices}.  [L.,  the  purple  fish.] 
  (Zo["o]l.) 
  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.