whelk as a noun: - 1
- 2
as a verb: - 1
whelk
noun
1 whelk
Large marine snail much used as food in Europe.
Roget 848:
blemish,
disfigurement,
deformity;
adactylism†;
flaw,
defect
etc.
(imperfection)
651;
injury
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
spots on the sun†;
eyesore.
stain,
blot;
spot,
spottiness;
speck,
speckle,
blur.
tarnish,
smudge;
dirt
etc.
653.
[blemish on a person's skin: list]
freckle,
mole,
macula [Anat.],
patch,
blotch,
birthmark;
blobber lip†,
blubber lip;
blain†,
maculation;
scar,
wem†;
pustule;
whelk;
excrescence,
pimple
etc.
(protuberance)
250.
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Dutch: wulk
2 whelk
Large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell.
Dutch: kinkhoorn, ruishoorn
Polish: trąbik
verb
1 whelk
Moby thesaurus: Dungeness crab, Japanese crab, abscess, aposteme, bed sore, blain, bleb, blister, blue point, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, clam, cold sore, coquillage, crab, crawdad, crawfish, crayfish, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, furuncle, furunculus, gathering, gumboil, hemorrhoids, kibe, langouste, lesion, limpet, littleneck clam, lobster, mussel, oyster, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, periwinkle, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, prawn, pustule, quahog, rising, scab, scallop, shellfish, shrimp, snail, soft chancre, soft-shell crab, sore, steamer, stigma, sty, suppuration, swelling, tubercle, ulcer, ulceration, wale, weal, welt, wheal, whelp, whitlow, wound ... show more.
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