A genus of large sea snails or whelks, many of which are edible and valued as seafood.
From Latin buccinum, possibly derived from bucca (cheek or mouth), as these snails were eaten and considered mouth-related food, or from a connection to the buccina trumpet due to their spiral shape.
Buccinum species like the waved whelk have been harvested for thousands of years—archaeological digs often find massive piles of their shells from ancient coastal settlements where people loved eating them.
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