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textile cone

textile cone noun: an attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.

textile cone: an attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble...
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Noun

textile cone (plural textile cones)

  1. An attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.
    • The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound. In a 2-inch-long textile cone snail , the tooth is about 1/4 inch long.1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25
    • The textile cone lives in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is fairly common on the Western Australian coast south to about Point Coates.2010, Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates, page 154

Examples of textile cone in a sentence

  • The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail2016, Lee Atchison, Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications, page 204:
  • Shaped like an ice-cream cone, the textile cone has eye stalks at its narrow end as well as a special tube used to smell food and breathe even while it is hidden beneath the sand.2017, Ruth Martin, The Animal Book, Lonely Planet Kids:

Forms of textile cone

pluraltextile cones

Questions about textile cone

What does textile cone mean?
Textile cone means an attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.
How do you use textile cone in a sentence?
The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail
What part of speech is textile cone?
Textile cone is a noun.
What is the plural of textile cone?
The plural of textile cone is textile cones.

Words near textile cone in the dictionary

  1. textile
  2. textile art
  3. textile arts
  4. textile banana
  5. textile bananas
  6. textile cone
  7. textile cones
  8. textilelike
  9. textiles
  10. textililin
  11. textilinin

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