conenoun [ C ]
uk/kəʊn/us/koʊn/cone noun [ C ] (SHAPE)
a shape with a flat, round or oval base and a top that becomes narrower until it forms a point:
a traffic cone
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Geometrical shapes
- -cornered
- -dimensional
- arch
- circular
- cuboid
- cylinder
- cylindrical
- dome
- hexagon
- incongruent
- isometric
- lozenge
- octagon
- ovoid
- parallelogram
- polygon
- quadrilateral
- rhombus
- spherical
- triangle
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cone noun [ C ] (TREE)
the hard oval-shaped fruit of a conifer
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
- acorn
- berry
- chaff
- coffee bean
- endosperm
- fruiterer
- grain
- mielie
- nut
- pine cone
- pine nut
- pit
- pith
- seeded
- seeded
- sesame seed
- stalk
- thistledown
- windfall
- zest
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cone noun [ C ] (FOOD)
a container made of very light thin biscuit, or one of these containing ice cream:
an ice cream cone
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Puddings, desserts & ices
- baked Alaska
- baklava
- banana split
- banoffee pie
- blancmange
- Eton mess
- flan
- fool
- fruit salad
- granita
- peach Melba
- plum pudding
- Popsicle
- pudding
- rice pudding
- syllabub
- tapioca
- tiramisù
- trifle
- water ice
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cone noun [ C ] (IN EYE)
specialized anatomy a type of cell in the retina (= part at the back of the eye) that helps you to see colour and small details
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