conid
conid noun: any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
Noun
conid (plural conids)
- Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
- One of the vaguely cone-shaped bumps (cusps) that appear on the surface of a lower molar.
- This high crowned tooth presents a complex pattern of conids, conulids, accessory tubercles and valleys.1987, Rajan Gaur, Environment and ecology of early man in northwest India
- 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.1989, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 226
- Synonym of conidium.
- Synonyms:
- conidium
Synonyms of conid
Forms of conid
| plural | conids |
|---|
Words formed from conid
Questions about conid
- What does conid mean?
- Conid means any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
- What part of speech is conid?
- Conid is a noun.
- What is the plural of conid?
- The plural of conid is conids.
Words near conid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “conid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/conid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.