conid

Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.

Noun

  1. Any mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails.
  2. 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...
    • PUPC 96/44 is an isolated first molar of left mandibular ramus and all the four conids are fully developed. - 2007, Pakistan Journal of Zoology, volume 39, page 335:
  3. Synonym of conidium.

    Synonyms: conidium

Forms

conids

Derived

anteroconid conulid entoconid hypoconid mesoconid metaconid paraconid posteroconid protoconid