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textile cones

textile cones is the plural of textile cone.

Meaning of textile cone

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

Questions about textile cones

What is textile cones the plural of?
Textile cones is the plural of textile cone.

Words near textile cones in the dictionary

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

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