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stylocone

stylocone noun: a pyramidal lobe on a molar with a spiky projection.

Noun

stylocone (plural stylocones)

  1. A pyramidal lobe on a molar with a spiky projection.
  2. A spiky plate on an echinoderm.
    • Stylophorans are divided into two orders the Cornuta and Ankyroida: cornutes have asymmetrical thecae, aulacophores with stylocones and cover plates over the food groove that open widely; ankyroids have essentially bilaterally symmetrical thecae, aulacophores with styloids and in most the cover...1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...

Forms of stylocone

pluralstylocones

Origin of stylocone

From stylo- + cone.

Questions about stylocone

What does stylocone mean?
Stylocone means a pyramidal lobe on a molar with a spiky projection.
What part of speech is stylocone?
Stylocone is a noun.
What is the plural of stylocone?
The plural of stylocone is stylocones.

Words near stylocone in the dictionary

  1. stylobate
  2. stylobates
  3. stylocavernula
  4. stylocellid
  5. stylocellids
  6. stylocone
  7. stylocones
  8. styloconic
  9. stylodactylid
  10. stylodactylids
  11. stylodia

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