torticone
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
torticone (plural torticones)
- (malacology) A shell (as of a snail, cephalopod, etc) having the form of a conical corkscrew, a twisted cone.
Further reading[edit]
- 1906, New York State Museum, Science Service, Bulletin, page 370:
- torticone — a twisted cone as in snail shells (gastropods) or certain cephalopods