torticone

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English

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Noun

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torticone (plural torticones)

  1. (malacology) A shell (as of a snail, cephalopod, etc) having the form of a conical corkscrew, a twisted cone.

Further reading

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  • 1906, New York State Museum, Science Service, Bulletin, page 370:
    torticone — a twisted cone as in snail shells (gastropods) or certain cephalopods
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