| 词汇 | whelk |
| 释义 | whelk noun[ C ] uk /welk/ us /welk/ a soft sea creature, similar to a snail, that lives in a hard shell（海）蛾螺 Paul Kay/Oxford Scientific/GettyImages Sea creatures abalone amphipod anemone barnacle barrier reef cowrie crab cray crayfish crustacean littleneck clam lobster marron mollusc mussel shellfish shipworm shrimp snow crab soft-shell clam Examples of whelkwhelk In the years that followed, the knowledge of whelk-dyeing processes on an industrial scale was completely lost. It should also be noted that true whelk dyeing could have been done with very few whelks, to reduce costs. Nonetheless, the photochemical reaction undergone by the whelk mucus has always occurred, and this suggests that such variations may have been slight. The basic difficulty is that, on exposure to air and sunlight, the whelk mucus turns into a purple pigment which is not soluble in water. We played on that beach until we were tired, sailing boats, boiling whelks. The simplest method of whelk dyeing was never forgotten amongst coastal peoples. This adds to the surprise of readers when his immediately following choice of colour adjective for whelk dye is encountered. The smaller ones were entirely crushed, while, in the case of larger whelks, the shells were broken open, and the hypobranchial glands removed. Snails that graze algal mats are also common on the surface, in addition to invertebrate predators such as crabs, shrimps and whelks. The meaning of wyrmcorn would then indicate ' "worm" seed', again referring to whelk eggs and, obliquely, to their dye. Whelk is, therefore, used quite loosely in this paper to indicate any species commonly referred to as whelks, tingles or whelk-tingles. Bede's use of purpureus is particularly interesting in view of his immediately following description of whelk dye. Finally, there is a further possibility which would certainly leave no archaeological trace at all, except on textile fragments, and that is the obtaining of a dye from whelk eggs. First of all, it should not be assumed that any evidence of a purple colour in an early context must be from whelks. At that time we could gather whelks from the beaches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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