painted top
noun
(In full painted top-shell) a littoral gastropod mollusc, Calliostoma zizyphinum, which has a vividly coloured conical shell.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John G. Wood (1827–1889), natural historian and microscopist.
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