crioconic

English

Adjective

crioconic (not comparable)

1. (malacology) Having the shape of a ram's horn.
   • 1997, Nico M. M. Janssen, Mikhail Vladimirovich Kakabadze, Ph. J. Hoedemaeker, Mediterranean Neocomian belemnites:

     Very open crioconic whorls, which gradually pass into a long straight shaft.

   • 1988, Jost Wiedmann, Jürgen Kullmann, Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985:

     Hoplocriocone - crioconic early whorls. The last whorl bends away from crioconic spiral and (without becoming straight) is gradually bent like a hook.

Related terms

• criocone

See also

• arietiform

References

• “crioconic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.