noun
- declension: undeclined
Definitions:
- kind of murex/snail yielding purple dye (L+S)
- small shell-fish
- whelk
- winkle
- Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
- Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
- Geography: All or none
- Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
- Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)