needle whelk
noun
A horn shell of the genus Bittium (family Cerithiidae); especially B. reticulatum of the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in William Borlase (1696–1772), antiquary and naturalist.
- non-load-bearing
- non-local
- non-locality
- non-logical
- non-logically
- non-low
- non-magnetic
- non-magnetizable
- non-malignant
- non-mammalian
- non-mandatory
- non-manual
- non-Maori
- non-market
- non-Marxist
- non-material
- non-materialistic
- non-materiality
- non-mathematical
- non-mathematician
- non-mechanised
- non-mechanized
- non-medical
- non-medicinal
- non-medullated