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41cone pepper — noun plant bearing erect pungent conical red or yellow or purple fruits; sometimes grown as an ornamental • Syn: ↑Capsicum annuum conoides • Hypernyms: ↑capsicum, ↑pepper, ↑capsicum pepper plant • Member Holonyms: ↑genus Cap …
42cone pepper — 1. a tropical, woody pepper plant, Capsicum annuum conoides, having upright, cone shaped, very pungent fruit of red, yellow, or purple. 2. the fruit itself. * * * …
43cone biopsy — surgical removal, via a colposcope, of a cone shaped segment of tissue from the cervix of the uterus. It may be performed if a cervical smear reveals evidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN): the affected tissue is removed and… …
44cone biopsy — surgical removal, by knife or laser, of a cone shaped segment of tissue from the cervix of the uterus. It may be performed if a cervical biopsy (see colposcopy) reveals evidence of cervical carcinoma in situ (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia… …
45cone of silence — noun an inverted cone shaped space directly over the aerial towers of some forms of radio beacons in which signals are unheard or greatly reduced in volume …
46cone brake — noun : a friction brake in which the frictional surfaces are cone shaped …
47cone of silence — a cone shaped region directly above a radio signal beacon in which signals from the beacon are not received by aircraft …
48cone-plant — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of certain small succulent plants constituting a genus (Conophytum) of the family Aizoaceae and consisting of inverted cone shaped bodies each made up of two joined leaves with a small opening through which a stemless flower …
49Cone — (k[=o]n?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. kw^nos; akin to Skr. [,c]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See {Hone}, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right angled triangle about one of the… …
50Cone of rays — Cone Cone (k[=o]n?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. kw^nos; akin to Skr. [,c]ana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See {Hone}, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right angled triangle about… …
