cone
Example Sentences
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Human color vision depends on three types of cone cells in the eye, sensitive to red, blue and green light.
From Science Daily
Early activity involved lava spreading out from fissures in the ground, while later eruptions came from more focused vents that built cone shaped features.
From Science Daily
The island was built in layers, Nim thought: beach and rock, grassland and rain forest, and, last of all, the rocky Fire Mountain cone.
From Literature
“After enough vacations came and went, a cone of silence took hold.”
From Los Angeles Times
Families popped it over wood stoves; peddlers sold it in paper cones at circuses, carnivals and busy promenades.
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