Lituiticone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lituiticone is a noun meaning (malacology) A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
Meaning
(malacology) A conch or shell which completes few whorls in the beginning, and thereafter becomes a straight cone.
Example Sentences
[…] The shells are slender orthocones or rapidly expanding lituiticones, either weakly cyrtoconic or with the apical part spirally[…]
An endogastric cyrtocone, the basal part sectioned showing the position of the siphuncle P. A lituiticone. All side views, except M, have the shell oriented with the venter to the left
Description A nautiloid with a shell only partially coiled in a flat spiral (lituiticone) : the coiling appears in the first whorls, which may be only slightly touching, and the shell subsequently develops in a straight line[…]
Word Forms
- lituiticones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include torticone, bactriticone, longicone, tarphyceracone, nautilicone, cyrtoceracone.
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