Meaning of textile cone | Babel Free

Definitions

An attractive cone shell (Conus textile) in which the colours are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth, found in the Indo-Pacific.

Examples

“The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound. In a 2-inch-long textile cone snail , the tooth is about 1/4 inch long.”

“The textile cone lives in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is fairly common on the Western Australian coast south to about Point Coates.”

“The animal on the cover of Architecting for Scale is a textile cone sea snail”

“Shaped like an ice-cream cone, the textile cone has eye stalks at its narrow end as well as a special tube used to smell food and breathe even while it is hidden beneath the sand.”

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