whelk

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. large marine snail much used as food in Europe
• Hypernyms:
seafood
2. large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
• Hypernyms:
seasnail
• Member Holonyms:
Buccinidae, family Buccinidae

II - verb

gather whelk
• Hypernyms:
snail
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
- In the summer they like to go out and whelk