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.

Derived terms

• anteroconid
• conulid
• hypoconid

 

Anagrams

• INDOC