Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a cone or some aspect of one.

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  • adjective relating to or resembling a cone

Etymologies

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cone +‎ -like

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Examples

  • High school student Sean Belahovick's vision started deteriorating to the point of being blind in one eye when it was discovered that he was suffering from keratoconus, a disorder in which the cornea begins to bulge out and turn conelike.

    VIDEO: Blind Teen Sees Again 2011

  • His weed-beating strategy included using young plants in conelike soil cells, called plugs, in addition to seeds.

    Growers harness flames to prepare meadows for wildflowers Adrian Higgins 2010

  • His weed-beating strategy included using young plants in conelike soil cells, called plugs, in addition to seeds.

    Growers harness flames to prepare meadows for wildflowers 2010

  • His weed-beating strategy included using young plants in conelike soil cells, called plugs, in addition to seeds.

    Growers harness flames to prepare meadows for wildflowers 2010

  • At the end of the market is a tall, whitewashed, conelike tower, with black intertwining snakes painted on all its sides—the temple.

    THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

  • In birches, they resemble long, conelike structures, dangling down from amid the leaves.

    The Killing Hour Gardner, Lisa 2003

  • Purple fruiting bodies burst from conelike structures that emerged at random from each shiny coil.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • In the conelike pool of the headlights stood the log cabin where Jessy lived.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • In the conelike pool of the headlights stood the log cabin where Jessy lived.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • I lay back down then in my chains, on the small iron floor of the cage, my knees pulled up high, and looked upward at the hollow, conelike ceiling of the cage.

    Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983

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