queer-named

Updated: May 6, 2025

The fisherman call all of this class, whelks. After this, came another rather queer-named shell, the animal that lived in it, being called the "Common Whelk," and belonging to a class of creatures entitled Buccinidae, from the Latin name for trumpet, because they were thought to look like a trumpet.

Unknown - Charley's Museum: A Story for Young People