English Explanatory Dictionary

cyrtocone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A curved (cyrtoconic) form of the young shell that succeeds the more primitive orthocone in nautiloid cephalopods.

Word forms

cyrtocone cyrtocones

Etymology

From cyrto- + cone.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary