cone
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- noun
- /koʊn/
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piña
- They're garlands and they've got little gold acorns and little pine cones on them.
- pine cone
- cones with seeds
- individual cones
Look at that pine cone wand that looks like a a little tree.
- Look at that pine cone wand that looks like a a little tree.
- What, like there was a lot of depictions of the pine cone.
- But if you're like the guy that's making the, you know, the movie about purple pine cones, like maybe that's not as exciting to people, right.
Examples
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- You wanna see my pine cone collection?
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You can use pine cones to create a very special Yuletide menorah.
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It's a pine cone that has a little tree growing out the top.
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- It was a pine cone from the beach path.
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A pine cone called Dash?
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These are LED pine cone lights from Gardner Supply.
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I can smell pine cones.
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Right where the path suddenly curved, she was collecting pine cones and putting them in a sack.
Fiction book (1996) -
Someone had hung a fir wreath decorated with pine cones, silver bayberries, dried blueberries, and a purple ribbon.
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The forest is covered with pine trees, and you can find many cones scattered on the ground.
Synonyms
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A hard, dry cone from a pine tree that holds seeds
A cone-shaped part of plants like pines and horsetails that holds spores or seeds
A cone-shaped part of some plants that holds seeds or spores
A hard, dry part of a fir tree that holds its seeds
A fleshy cone on a cypress tree that holds seeds
Compounds
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The pointed front part of a rocket, missile, or plane that protects important parts and reduces air resistance during flight
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A shape with a round base that narrows to a single point at the top like an ice cream cone
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A tree from California with very large cones 4 to 8 inches long
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A tree from California with very large cones four to eight inches long
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A machine part with cone-shaped surfaces that use rubbing to let power pass between two shafts
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A clutch with cone shaped friction surfaces that connects two rotating shafts
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A wide fan of sand and stones that forms when a fast river slows at a mountain base
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A small cone of clay that melts at a set temperature to show how hot a kiln is
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A cone shape with the top cut off leaving two round ends of different sizes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cone originally came from the Greek word konos, which meant a 'pine-cone'. A pine cone has many overlapping scales around a center and holds seeds, so the word now means that plant structure.