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| whelk [ welk, hwelk ] (plural whelk or whelks) |
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sea mollusk: an invertebrate sea animal with a conical spiraling shell. Some kinds of whelk are edible. Family Buccinidae.
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| [ Old English weoloc, altered perhaps by association with whelk2] |
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