textile cone

plural textile cones

1. An attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.

   The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail

   2016, Lee Atchison, Architecting for Scale: High Availability for Your Growing Applications, page 204

   3 more examples

   The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound. In a 2-inch-long textile cone snail , the tooth is about 1/4 inch long.

   1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25

   The textile cone lives in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is fairly common on the Western Australian coast south to about Point Coates.

   2010, Loisette M. Marsh, Shirley Slack-Smith, Field Guide to Sea Stingers and Other Venomous and Poisonous Marine Invertebrates, page 154

   Shaped like an ice-cream cone, the textile cone has eye stalks at its narrow end as well as a special tube used to smell food and breathe even while it is hidden beneath the sand.

   2017, Ruth Martin, The Animal Book, Lonely Planet Kids

   Synonyms: cloth of gold cone