criocone
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of criocone
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 [...]”
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noun
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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 [...]”
adj
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.
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