English Dictionary

winkle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɪŋkəl/

名詞

A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae. / Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.

日本語の意味

リトリニダエ科に属する巻貝、またはその殻。 / アメリカ合衆国などで見られる、様々な海洋性の螺旋状に巻いた軟体動物（特にBusycotypus canaliculataおよびBusycon caricaという2種を含む）を指す。

She found a smooth winkle clinging to the jetty stones and placed it carefully back into a tide pool.

彼女は防波堤の石にしがみついているつやのあるイソガイを見つけ、それを注意深く潮だまりに戻した。

意味（1）

A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.

[…] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.

意味（2）

Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.

There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).

意味（3）

(children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.

After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.

winkles （ plural ）