Cone-shell


noun
1.
any of numerous, chiefly tropical, marine gastropods of the genus Conus, having a smooth, brightly colored, conical shell with a short, flattened spire.
noun
1.
any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shell Sometimes shortened to cone

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