conehead

conehead
 n.— «Bingham, a biochemist at Clarkson University, is a self- described “conehead” whose livelihood depends on scuba diving for tropical marine cone snails and coaxing them to discharge their venom in his laboratory.» —“For scientist, it’s milking time down on the snail farm” by Alicia Chang Tulsa World (Okla.) Oct. 31, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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