Phragmocone

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The chambered portion of the shell of certain cephalopods, divided by septa into camerae.

    "This ability to continuously add new buoyancy chambers to their phragmocones allowed ancient cephalopods to reach truly stupendous sizes."

  2. 2
    the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite wordnet

Synonyms

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phragmacone

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"This ability to continuously add new buoyancy chambers to their phragmocones allowed ancient cephalopods to reach truly stupendous sizes."

Etymology

From phragmo- + cone.

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