ancistrosyrinx
noun
an·cis·tro·syrinx
an¦sistrō +
1
capitalized : a small genus (family Turritidae) of gastropod mollusks that occur in warm deep seas and have delicate steeply shouldered pale shells ringed with upward-curving spines
2
plural ancistrosyringes : any mollusk or shell of the genus Ancistrosyrinx
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from Greek ankistron fishhook + syrinx shepherd's pipe
First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- interfered
- interfered (with)
- interfered with
- interference
- interference colors
- interference figure
- interference fringe
- interference pattern
- interference spectrum
- interferences
- interferential
- interferer
- interferers
- interferes
- interferes (with)
- interferes with
- interfering
- interfering (with)
- interfering with
- interferingly
- interferogram
- interferograms
- interferograph
- interferometer
- interferometers