conid

English

Noun

conid (plural conids)

  1. (zoology) Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
  2. (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.
  3. (mycology) Synonym of conidium.

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Etymology

Univerbation of co (“so that”) +‎ is (“is”).

Verb

conid (abbreviated ɔid)

  1. so that (it) is

Quotations

  • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 29a8
    do·rochair i ndílsi dí ɔid nomen dí Pudicitia
    it has fallen into proper-noun-ness to her, so that Pudicitia is a name of hers
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