† burretn.
Obsolete. rare.
Used to render Latin murex, a kind of shellfish yielding a dye.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Muricidae > member or parts of genus Murex
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xxxvi. 258 The Murex or Burret.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry viii. xvi. 373 Conchyls, burrets, oysters, and others of the purple kind [L. conchyliis, muricibus, et ostreis].
1745 in tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry viii. xvi. 374 (footnote) The murex, which some call a burret.
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