Serpenticone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Serpenticone is a noun meaning (malacology) An organism or fossil with a serpenticonic shell, or the shell itself.
Meaning
(malacology) An organism or fossil with a serpenticonic shell, or the shell itself.
More Meanings
- (malacology) Serpenticonic.
Example Sentences
All or most were pelagic, ranging from planktic serpenticones and spherocones to mobile discocones and oxycones.
[...] disturbance to such a form might produce rapid acceleration in two ways — in shape, from serpenticone to criocone, in ornament, from tuberculate to costate, that is, costate post-tuberculate.
Coiling is serpenticone or heteromorph, sculpture is of ribbing (almost invariably simple), with external tuberculation in Choristoceratidae. Generally criocone although much of the phragmocone may be serpenticone.
Word Forms
- serpenticones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include serpulimorph, baculicone, ophidian, turricone, scaphitocone, serpentry.
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