whelk

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But the whelk is a cold-water species, and a marine heatwave in 2022 triggered a mass die-off of these snails in the Thames Estuary.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025

They’ve placed 10,000 bags of oysters and whelk shells there since 2015.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2022

Pre-Columbian painted animal sculptures, which attest, in their lifelike accuracy, to the sophistication and skill of their creators, were found at Key Marco, Fla., along with countless lightning whelk beads, pendants and ear buttons.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

What did we expect from a man with the self-awareness of a whelk?

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2019

It is called taking the "whelk striæ," the fusiform being called "rice baskets," and the volutes "peck measures."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various