Lexicographical Neighbors of Murices
Literary usage of Murices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Figurative Uses of Animal Names in Latin and Their Application to Military by Eugene Stock McCartney (1912)
"The Romans, according to the traditional story, retaliated for the cruelty to
Regulus by confining Carthaginian captives in a box bristling with murices, ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... can see nothing in those I have described to justify the creation of a genus
for their animals distinct from Murex. I view them as murices in which the ..."
3. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"Shells which have branching or expanded varices, like the murices, ... Rest-periods
in the growth of mollusks are sometimes, as in the murices, ..."
4. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1883)
"Adams an omnium gatherum, including true murices, ... for a group of small murices
with numerous varices and ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Conchology: Including Observations on the by Samuel Brookes (1815)
"&c> There are not many of the animals known that inhabit these shells, and those
that are known do not differ much from the animals of the murices; ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"It seems in fact that the spine-forming stage has become superposed upon the
rib-forming stage for the ribs are characteristic of adult murices of such ..."
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