Usually means: Sea snail, produces purple dye.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word murex:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. murex: Merriam-Webster
  2. Murex, murex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. murex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. murex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Murex, murex: Wordnik
  6. murex: Wiktionary
  7. murex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. murex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. murex: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Murex, murex: Dictionary.com
  11. murex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Murex (company), Murex (disambiguation), Murex (financial software), Murex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Murex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. murex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Murex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. MUREX: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. murex: FreeDictionary.org
  18. murex: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. murex: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See murexes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (murex)

noun:  Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.

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