torticone

English

Noun

torticone (plural torticones)

1. (malacology) A shell (as of a snail, cephalopod, etc) having the form of a conical corkscrew, a twisted cone.

Further reading

• 1906, New York State Museum, Science Service, Bulletin, page 370:

  torticone — a twisted cone as in snail shells (gastropods) or certain cephalopods