Word.ws English Dictionary

stylocones

stylocones is the plural of stylocone.

Meaning of stylocone

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...

Questions about stylocones

What is stylocones the plural of?
Stylocones is the plural of stylocone.

Words near stylocones in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stylocones (page history and authors); stylocone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “stylocones.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/stylocones. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.