cone-shaped conical
11cone karst — 1. A karst landscape dominated by low conical (or hemispherical) hills that forms only in wet tropical climates. The type example is Gunung Sewu in Java. Individual hills are remarkably uniform, each some few hundred meters in diameter and… …
12cone — I. noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin conus, from Greek kōnos Date: 1545 1. a. a solid generated by rotating a right triangle about one of its legs called also right circular cone b. a solid bounded by a circular or …
13Cone of Silence — For the British aviation drama film, see Cone of Silence (1960 film). The Cone of Silence is one of many recurring joke devices from Get Smart, an American comedy television series of the 1960s about an inept spy. Invented by Professor Cone , the …
14cone — n. [L. conus, cone] 1. Any cone shaped structure. 2. The conical crystalline body of a compound eye, not always solid crystalline and occasionally not conical; see crystalline. 3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The head shape of a thrip. 4. (NEMATODA:… …
15cone clutch — noun a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone shaped • Syn: ↑cone friction clutch • Hypernyms: ↑friction clutch * * * noun : a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone shaped * * * cone clutch, a friction… …
16cone pepper — noun plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental • Syn: ↑Capsicum annuum conoides • Hypernyms: ↑capsicum, ↑pepper, ↑capsicum pepper plant • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cap …
17cone — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A conical object] Syn. conoid, cone shaped area, conoidal area, conoidal surface, funnel, cornet, strobiloid. Types of cones include: circular, right circular, chief, stepped, supplemental, oblique, retinal, endostylic,… …
18cone — n. & v. n. 1 a solid figure with a circular (or other curved) plane base, tapering to a point. 2 a thing of a similar shape, solid or hollow, e.g. as used to mark off areas of roads. 3 the dry fruit of a conifer. 4 an ice cream cornet. 5 any of… …
19conical — adj. [L. conus, cone] Cone shaped; conic; tapering to a point …
20conical — con·i·cal kän i kəl or con·ic kän ik adj resembling a cone esp. in shape con·i·cal·ly k(ə )lē adv * * * con·i·cal (konґĭ kəl) cone shaped …
