whelk

I've found some whelk shells, and I think they may indicate something important.

"Suppose he was using the whelks to make a special kind of dye!"

Prey are chosen by the whelk according to their species and size.

Despite the popular conception, running a whelk stall is no easy matter.

Balanced on his whelk of a nose was a pince-nez.

We had been gathering whelks from the rocks in a shallow pan.

Usually these feeding convergences involved only a single sea star and two or three whelks.

The dog whelk lives in rocky shores, and estuarine conditions.

I began with a large bowl of whelks.

The man has the intellectual nous of a whelk.

Among the most common predators on barnacles are whelks.

If the crows did not fly high enough, they would have little success in breaking the whelks' shells.

She seized this, dumped out the whelks, and filled it with seawater.

Dog whelks reproduce by aggregating for the mating season in the spring.

Young whelks, however, do have to bore large barnacles.

Then a whale to a whelk we have swallowed the King of England.

Marine whelks, which are a huge type of mollusk, were imported and put into it.

Those who once ruled Britannia cannot now command the price of a whelk supper.

The empty shell of a whelk is often used by the hermit crab to make its home.

Individual whelks seem to have no "loyalty" to their own pack, readily joining another if displaced.

Start thinking like that and you end up thinking maybe you're just a butterfly dreaming it's a whelk or something.

"Will you please leave whelks out of it?"

Beside the bed was a bowl of whelks, cooked in an aromatic broth.

Shells of the channeled whelk typically reach 5 to 8 inches in length.

The shell of the lightning whelk on the other hand almost always opens on the right.