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dog-whelk

dog-whelk is the alternative form of dog whelk.

Meaning of dog whelk

Noun

dog whelk (plural dog whelks)

  1. A carnivorous European mollusc, Nucella lapillus, found on rocky coasts.
    • 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...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
    Synonyms:
    Atlantic dogwinkle, purple

Forms of dog-whelk

pluraldog-whelks

Questions about dog-whelk

What is dog-whelk the alternative form of?
Dog-whelk is the alternative form of dog whelk.

Words near dog-whelk in the dictionary

  1. dog-walker
  2. dog-walking
  3. dog-watch
  4. dog-watches
  5. dog-weary
  6. dog-whelk
  7. dog-whelks
  8. dog-whistle politics
  9. dog-whistley
  10. dog-whistling
  11. dog-whistly

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