conid
English
Noun
conid (plural conids)
- (zoology) Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
- (dentistry) One of the vaguely cone-shaped bumps (cusps) that appear on the surface of a lower molar.
- 1987, Rajan Gaur, Environment and ecology of early man in northwest India:
- This high crowned tooth presents a complex pattern of conids, conulids, accessory tubercles and valleys.
- 1989, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 226:
- At the end of the oblique cristid there is only a very faint swelling which might be called the mesolingual conid. The anterolingual conid is not well developed.
- 2007, Pakistan Journal of Zoology, volume 39, page 335:
- PUPC 96/44 is an isolated first molar of left mandibular ramus and all the four conids are fully developed.
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Derived terms
- anteroconid
- conulid
- hypoconid
Anagrams
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