ˈkōnəs noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, cone — more at cone
1. capitalized : a very large genus (the type of the family Conidae) of pectinibranchiate tropical marine snails comprising the cones and including many beautiful and harmless forms and a few chiefly in the southwest Pacific that are highly dangerous by biting with the radula and injecting a paralytic venom that has been known to cause death in man — see geographer cone , textile cone
2. plural co·ni -ˌnī, -(ˌ)nē
[New Latin, by shortening]
: conus arteriosus