murex in a sentence

Examples

1. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails.
2. The royal purple dye, murex, first discovered and made famous by the Phoenicians, was locally produced.
3. The murex shell appears on the very earliest Tyrian coins and then reappears again on coins in Imperial Roman times.
4. Fishes depicted include bream, dentalia, murex, sea snail, shrimp, crab, dolphin, hippocamp, etc.
5. He was able to obtain 12, 000 " Murex brandaris " from biologists working at the Mediterranean sea.
6. The Phoenicians had discovered in the waters off the coast murex sea snails, the source of the famed Tyrian purple.
7. A spot check found that many doctors were not aware of the rapid Murex test, which has been marketed since 1992.
8. However, a few sea animals, such as " Murex " snails, use bromide to make organic compounds.
9. On August 24, 1892, the " Murex " became the first tanker to pass through the Suez Canal.
10. While teaching classes at Tulane University as a Geology professor, Vokes published her catalog of the Genus " Murex"