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A carnivorous European mollusc, Nucella lapillus, found on rocky coasts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1971 January 14, Graham Chedd, Peter Stubbs, Gerald Wick (section editors), Monitor: Starving dog whelks grow teeth in the estuary, New Scientist, Volume 49, Number 734, page 57, A recent study of shell-shape in the dog whelk Nucella lapillus along the Bristol Channel suggests - that in progressively less saline conditions the species lives in a colonising situation, where periodic food shortages, rather than physiological limitations, decimate populations and sometimes lead to local extinction.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Atlantic dogwinkle, purple
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
purppurakotilo
— Nucella lapillus
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French:
pourpre
— Nucella lapillus
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French:
pilau
— Nucella lapillus
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German:
Nordische Purpurschnecke
— Nucella lapillus
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Irish:
cuachma chon
— Nucella lapillus
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Irish:
faocha chapaill
— Nucella lapillus
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Irish:
faocha choirn
— Nucella lapillus
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Norman:
chorchiéthe
— Nucella lapillus
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Norman:
coque à j'vaux
— Nucella lapillus
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Russian:
краси́льная багря́нка
(krasílʹnaja bagrjánka)
— Nucella lapillus
