textile cone

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English

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A live individual of Conus textile, head end towards the right.

Noun

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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.
    • 1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25:
      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.
    • 2010, Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates, page 154:
      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.
    • 2016, Lee Atchison, Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications, page 204:
      The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail
    • 2017, Ruth Martin, The Animal Book, Lonely Planet Kids:
      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.

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