Crossword-Solution: MUREX
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Murex | n. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MUREX | anagram | RUMEX |
We have 13 clues for the answer “MUREX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dye-producing gastropod | 1 answer |
| Gastropod genus | 1 answer |
| Genus of predatory sea snails named by Aristotle | 1 answer |
| PURPLE dye shell | 1 answer |
| Spiny-shelled gastropod | 1 answer |
| Whelk yielding a purple dye. | 1 answer |
| dye source purple color | 1 answer |
| purple color dye source | 1 answer |
| marine gastropod | 3 answers |
| DYEING substance | 6 answers |
| Purplish red | 12 answers |
| gastropod | 16 answers |
| mollusc | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MUREX (5)
This true, creative poet, whom the speaker calls “God’s glow-worm, creative in the sense of revealing, whose inmost centre, where truth abides in fulness, has that freedom of responsiveness to the divine which makes him the revealer of it to men, plays the part in the world of spirit which, in the material world was played by the fisher who, first on the coast of Tyre the old, fished up the purple-yielding murex.
But when it is all ready for the market, the small dealers, “put blue into their line”, and outdare each other in azure feats by which they secure great popularity, and, as a result, fare sumptuously; while he who fished the murex up was unrecognized, and fed, perhaps, on porridge.
They also carried with them choice presents from their father for the ruler of Egypt, things that arouse wonder outside of Palestine, such as the murex, which is the snail that produces the Tyrian purple, and various kinds of balm, and almond oil, and pistachio oil, and honey as hard as stone.
What we chiefly learn from this writer as to the dyeing process is[823]--first, that sometimes the liquid derived from the _murex_ only, sometimes that of the _purpura_ or _buccinum_ only, was applied to the material which it was wished to colour, while the most approved hue was produced by an application of both dyes separately.
The _Murex_ alone gave a dye that was firm, and reckoned moderately good; but the _Buccinum_ alone was weak, and easily washed out.
Quotes with MUREX (1)
Since everyone around you agrees ever since there were people on earth that land is value, or labor is value, or learning is value, or title, degree, necklaces, murex shells, the ownership of slaves. Everyone knows bees sting and ghosts haunt and giving your robes away humiliates your rivals. That the enemies are barbarians. That wise men swim through the rock of the earth; that houses breed filth, airstrips attract airplanes, tornadoes punish, ancestors watch, and you can bu…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2015).