Zool. [L.: from a supposed resemblance to a trumpet.] The genus of gasteropod Mollusks represented by the Whelk.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 258. The lesse shell called Buccinum, fashioned like vnto that horn or cornet … hath a round back.
1854. Gosse, Nat. Hist. Mollusca, 182. The buccinum … was observed to perforate a small hole in the shell.
