#whelk  large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
  supertype:  seasnail  any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moonshells; neritids
  substance:  whelk.seafood
  member of:  family_Buccinidae__Buccinidae  whelks
     member of:  class_Gastropoda__Gastropoda__Gasteropoda__class_Gasteropoda  snails and slugs and their relatives
        member of:  phylum_Mollusca__Mollusca  gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
           member of:  kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom  taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

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