whelk
English Thesaurus
1. large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | seasnail, |
| definition | : | any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids (noun.animal) |
| substance holonym | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large marine snail much used as food in Europe (noun.food) |
2. large marine snail much used as food in Europe (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | seafood, |
| definition | : | edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc (noun.food) |
| substance meronym | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal) |
3. gather whelk (verb.competition)
| hypernym | : | snail, |
| definition | : | gather snails (verb.contact) |
4. large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal)
| derivation | : | whelk, whelk, |
| definition | : | gather whelk (verb.competition) |
5. gather whelk (verb.competition)
| derivation | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large marine snail much used as food in Europe (noun.food) |
6. large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal)
| derivation | : | whelk, whelk, |
| definition | : | gather whelk (verb.competition) |
7. gather whelk (verb.competition)
| derivation | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | whelk, |
| definition | : | large marine snail much used as food in Europe (noun.food) |
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