crioconic
English
Adjective
crioconic (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1997, Nico M. M. Janssen, Mikhail Vladimirovich Kakabadze, Ph. J. Hoedemaeker, Mediterranean Neocomian belemnites:
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- “crioconic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.