criocone

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Definition of criocone

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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.”

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.

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