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- a solid or hollow object which tapers from a circular or roughly circular base to a point圆锥体。
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- Mathematics a surface or solid figure generated by the straight lines which pass from a circle or other closed curve to a single point (the vertex) not in the same plane as the curve. A cone with the vertex perpendicularly over the centre of a circular base is a right circular cone.【数】锥体, 锥面（right circular cone 为直立圆锥）。
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- （亦作traffic cone）a plastic cone-shaped object that is used to separate off or close sections of a road（分隔、关闭道路的）锥形交通路标。
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- a wafer container shaped like a cone in which ice cream is served（盛冰淇淋的）圆锥形华夫卷筒。
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- a conical mountain or peak, especially one of volcanic origin圆锥形山脉（或山峰）（尤指）火山锥。
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- （亦作pyrometric cone）a ceramic pyramid that melts at a known temperature and is used to indicate the temperature of a kiln（在既定温度下融化的, 用以测量窑温的）测温锥, 示温锥 。
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- short for CONE SHELL.CONE SHELL的简称。
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- the dry fruit of a conifer, typically tapering to a rounded end and formed of a tight array of overlapping scales on a central axis which separate to release the seeds（针叶树的）球果; 松果, 松球。
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- a flower resembling a pine cone, especially that of the hop plant（尤指啤酒花藤的）球花。
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- Anatomy a light-sensitive cell of one of the two types present in large numbers in the retina of the eye, responding mainly to bright light and responsible for sharpness of vision and colour perception【剖】视锥细胞。比较ROD（义项5）。
with obj.(cone something off)
- Brit. separate off or mark a road with traffic cones〈英〉用锥形交通路标分隔（或标明）道路：
part of the road has been coned off.
公路的一部分已被锥形交通路标隔开。
词源
late Middle English (denoting an apex or vertex)： from French cône, via Latin from Greek kōnos.