Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

criocone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: crio-cone
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.

adj

Example Sentences

"Small planospiral criocones with partially coiled whorls (microconchs) or completely uncoiled (macroconchs). Whorl-section hexagonal, rounded up to round. The protoconch and the first whorl unknown, but [...]"
"[...] 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."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρῑός (krīós, “ram”) + cone.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: κρῑός

Inflected Forms

criocones (plural)

Questions

What does criocone mean?: An organism or fossil with a crioconic shell, or such a shell itself.
Where does criocone come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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