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noun

any of numerous, chiefly tropical, marine gastropods of the genus Conus, having a smooth, brightly colored, conical shell with a short, flattened spire.

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Also called cone snail .

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How to use cone shell in a sentence

Their friends noticed, and asked Sabrine to talk to him to bring him out of his shell a little.
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Cone Mills features in all the major chapters of the 20th century.
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Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.
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If you tend to inhale your food without realizing how much you consumed, opt for nibbles like in-shell pistachio nuts.
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Then came the day Mustafa, along with two others, was killed by a mortar shell.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.
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He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
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Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
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British Dictionary definitions for cone shell

cone shell

noun

any of various tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genus Conus and related genera, having a smooth conical shellSometimes shortened to: cone

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