See Also: chalaza(medicine)
chalaza(dictionary)

murex (iou) and chalaza (iou)


murex (iou)



murex noun. , murexes. L16.
[Latin, perh. rel. to Greek muax sea-mussel.]
Any of various spiny-shelled predatory gastropod molluscs of the genus Murex and related genera, of tropical and temperate seas, from some of which the dye Tyrian purple was formerly obtained. Also murex shell.

chalaza (iou)



chalaza noun. . E18.
[mod. Latin from Greek khalaza small knot.]
Zoology. Either of two twisted membranous strands which join the yolk to the ends of an egg. E18.
Botany. The region of the ovule where the nucellus joins the integuments. M19.
chalazal adjective (chiefly Botany) M19.