whelk

n. 酒刺, 峨螺 [医] 酒刺, 面部丘疹

发音

其它 /wɛlk/

词形变化

whelks 复数

别名

welk whilk wilk

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

    峨螺

  2. 1.

    Pimple.

    古体
  3. 2.

    A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

seafood sea snail

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.

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