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
- polypides
- polypidom
- polypidoms
- polypiferous
- polypigerous
- polypite
- polypites
- Polyplacophora
- polyplacophorae
- polyplacophoran
- polyplacophoras
- polyplacophore
- polyplacophores
- polyplacophorous
- Polyplectron
- polyploid
- polyploid complex
- sinamay
- sinamays
- sinanthropus
- sinanthropuses
- sinapate
- sinapes
- sinapic acid
- sinapine