murex
英 ['mjʊəreks]
美 ['mjʊrɛks]
英文词源
- murex (n.)
- kind of shellfish which yields a purple dye, 1580s, from Latin murex (plural murices) "purple fish, purple dye," probably cognate with Greek myax "sea mussel," of unknown origin, perhaps related to mys "mouse" (see muscle (n.) and mussel).