crioconic

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adjective

Having the shape of a ram's horn.

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Meanings

adjectivecrioconic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving the shape of a ram's horn.

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

    1997, Nico M. M. Janssen, Mikhail Vladimirovich Kakabadze, Ph. J. Hoedemaeker, Mediterranean Neocomian belemnites
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    Hoplocriocone - crioconic early whorls. The last whorl bends away from crioconic spiral and (without becoming straight) is gradually bent like a hook.

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