Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of the predatory sea snails of the family Conidae, all the species of which are sometimes treated as is being in genus Conus or subfamily Coninae.

Origin

Partial calque of translingual Conus. By surface analysis, cone + snail.

Partial calque of translingual Conus. By surface analysis, cone + snail.

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Forms

plural: cone snails
Singularcone snail
Pluralcone snails

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Conidae:cone shell

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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