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: any of numerous large marine snails (as of the genus Buccinum)
especially
: one (B. undatum) used as food in Europe
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Noun (2)
unsightly whelks covered the beggar's face
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Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2024
However, visitors will find moon snails, conch shells, pen shells, periwinkles, whelks, and olive shells, all indigenous to the area.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
The menu is full of seaside favorites, including generous platters and seafood towers overflowing with langoustines, whelks, prawns, oysters, and lobsters.
—Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024
Local specimens include lightning whelks and angel wings from the bay and lions-paw scallops and alphabet cones from the Gulf.
—Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Is there something profound about making a whelk taste, quite pleasingly, like sour-cream-and-onion chips?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
Live channel whelk or conch are for sale at the Newport Lobster Shack on June 30, 2023 in Newport, R.I.Glenn Osmundson
At the Newport Lobster Shack, co-op president Dave Spencer hands a channel whelk, or conch, to manager Eileen Braman for a customer on Friday, June 30, 2023.
—Andrea E. McHugh, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Beyond that, sand dollars, conch shells, murex shells, worm-snail shells, Florida spiny jewel boxes, and lightning whelk shells are just a few of the varieties found there.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
Once the whelk slipped back into the spiral tunnel of its shell, the shell provides protection similar to a fortress.
—Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2013
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On board the 30-foot Salford sailing whelk yacht, there’s silence except for the creak of ropes and gurgle of our wake.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2024
However, visitors will find moon snails, conch shells, pen shells, periwinkles, whelks, and olive shells, all indigenous to the area.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
The menu is full of seaside favorites, including generous platters and seafood towers overflowing with langoustines, whelks, prawns, oysters, and lobsters.
—Jade Simon, Vogue, 21 June 2024
Local specimens include lightning whelks and angel wings from the bay and lions-paw scallops and alphabet cones from the Gulf.
—Robin Soslow, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Is there something profound about making a whelk taste, quite pleasingly, like sour-cream-and-onion chips?
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
Live channel whelk or conch are for sale at the Newport Lobster Shack on June 30, 2023 in Newport, R.I.Glenn Osmundson
At the Newport Lobster Shack, co-op president Dave Spencer hands a channel whelk, or conch, to manager Eileen Braman for a customer on Friday, June 30, 2023.
—Andrea E. McHugh, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
Beyond that, sand dollars, conch shells, murex shells, worm-snail shells, Florida spiny jewel boxes, and lightning whelk shells are just a few of the varieties found there.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
Once the whelk slipped back into the spiral tunnel of its shell, the shell provides protection similar to a fortress.
—Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2013
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“Whelk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whelk. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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