the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > shell of whelk (4)
The shell of this mollusc, or a representation of it. Obsolete.
the shell of the common whelk, Buccinum undatum, which appears to make a loud roaring noise (imagined to be the sound of the sea) when the…
= roaring buckie n. at roaring, adj. adv.compounds.