purple dye murex

English

Noun

purple dye murex

1. A medium-sized predatory sea snail of species Haustellum brandaris, which secrets a substance that can be used to make a long-lasting purple dye- Tyrian purple.

Synonyms

• spiny dye murex

Translations

sea snail

• German: Purpurschnecke (de) f
• Spanish: púrpura (es) f

References

• purple dye murex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Muricinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “purple dye murex”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “purple dye murex”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.