CONE-SHAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cone-shaped mean? 

• CONE-SHAPED (adjective)
  The adjective CONE-SHAPED has 1 sense:

1. relating to or resembling a cone

  Familiarity information: CONE-SHAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONE-SHAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or resembling a cone

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cone-shaped; conelike; conic; conical

Context example:

conelike fruit

Pertainym:

cone (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

 Context examples 

The reptile could swim fast, and with its hundreds of cone-shaped teeth, fed on fish and squid.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

A degenerative, structural disorder of the eye, characterized by a cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea.

(Keratoconus, NCI Thesaurus)

A cone-shaped projection in the shaft of the femur in which the iliopsoas muscle is attached.

(Lesser Trochanter, NCI Thesaurus)

An artifact that occurs as the number of sections acquired per rotation increases and the x-ray beam becomes cone-shaped rather than fan-shaped.

(Cone-beam Effect Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical removal of a cone-shaped portion of tissue from the uterine cervix.

(Conization, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure in which a cone-shaped piece of abnormal tissue is removed from the cervix using a scalpel or laser knife.

(Cold knife cone biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

A procedure in which a cone-shaped piece of abnormal tissue is removed from the cervix.

(Cone biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

Surgery to remove a cone-shaped piece of tissue from the cervix and cervical canal.

(Conization, NCI Dictionary)

The subjects sat in a chair facing a computer screen and under a long cone-shaped brain scanning cap.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

A large, cone-shaped area of gray matter within the basal ganglia comprised of the globus pallidus and putamen that is surrounded primarily by the caudate nucleus and the thalamus.

(Lenticular Nucleus, NCI Thesaurus)