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criocone

criocone noun: an organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.

Noun

criocone (plural criocones)

  1. An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
    • Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs). Whorl-section hexagonal, rounded up to round. The protoconch and the first whorl unknown, but [...]2002, K. Histon, Albert Daurer, Cephalopods, present and past

Adjective

criocone

  1. Crioconic.
    • [...] disturbance to such a form might produce rapid acceleration in two ways — in shape, from serpenticone to criocone, in ornament, from tuberculate to costate, that is, costate post-tuberculate.1927, Sydney Savory Buckman, Martin Simpson, George Young, Type Ammonites

Forms of criocone

pluralcriocones

Origin of criocone

From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.

Questions about criocone

What does criocone mean?
Criocone means an organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
What part of speech is criocone?
Criocone can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of criocone?
The plural of criocone is criocones.

Words near criocone in the dictionary

  1. crinozoan
  2. crins
  3. crinum
  4. crinums
  5. criobolium
  6. criocone
  7. criocones
  8. crioconic
  9. criodrilid
  10. criodrilids
  11. criolla

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