Associations to the word «Murex»

Wiktionary

MUREX, noun. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
MUREX, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Muricidae   — the murex gastropods once used to produce Tyrian purple.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope