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Murex   Listen
proper noun
Murex  n.  (pl. murices)  (Zool.) 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.






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... doubt the murex, which gives the purple dye. The details are taken from the Talmud (treatise ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber



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