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CONIFORM

Definition: CONIFORM

CONIFORM

Adjective

1. Cone-shaped; conical.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Coniform \Co"ni*form\, adjective. [Cone -form: compare to the French expression coniforme.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: CONIFORM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sharpness

Acinaciform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: CONIFORM

Language Translations for "CONIFORM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në trajtë koni (conical), konik (conic, conical, tapering). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

конусообразен (conic, conical, conoid). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kúp alakú (conic, conical, tapered). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cughlinagh (conic, conical, pineal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oniformcay

   

Portuguese

  

coniforme (conic, conical). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

conic (cone-shaped, conic, conical, tapering). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

конический (conic, conical). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u obliku konusa, koniformni. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cónico (conic, conical). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

konformad (conic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

konik (bevel, coned, conic, conical, conoid, tapered, tapering), koni şeklinde (conic, conical). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

конічний (conic), конусоподібний (conical, conoidal, taper). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hình nón (cone, conical). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CONIFORM"

Words rhyming with "CONIFORM" (pronounced 'Co"ni*form'): Acetabuliform, Aciculiform, Aciform, Acinaciform, Acinetiform, Aciniform, Actiniform, Aculeiform, Adeniform, Adipoceriform, Aeriform, Aliform, Aluminiform, Alveoliform, Ambulacriform, Amentiform, Amianthiform, Ampulliform, Anguiform, Anguilliform, Antenniform, Antheriform, Aquiform, Araneiform, Arboriform, Arciform, Asbestiform, Ascidiform, Aspergilliform, Auriform, Bacciform, Bacilliform, Basaltiform, Biform, Boniform, Botuliform, Boviform, Bromoform, Bursiform, Calceiform, Calciform, Calyciform, Calyptriform, Campaniform, Campaniliform, Cancriform, Capilliform, Capriform, Cauliform, Cerebriform. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CONIFORM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-m-n-o-o-r"

-1 letter: confirm, conform, moronic, omicron.

-2 letters: formic, inform, micron, morion.

-3 letters: croon, micro, minor, moron, nomoi, orcin.

-4 letters: cion, coif, coin, coir, coni, coof, coon, corf, corm, corn, fico, fino, firm, firn, foci, foin, form, from, icon, info, inro, iron, mono, moon, moor, morn, noir, nori, norm, roof, room.

-5 letters: con, coo, cor, fin, fir, fon.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-m-n-o-o-r"
 

+2 letters: comforting, conforming, conformism, conformist, conformity.

 

+3 letters: conformisms, conformists, forthcoming.

 

+4 letters: comfortingly, confirmation, confirmatory, conformation, conformities, inconformity, unconformity.

 

+5 letters: chloroforming, confirmations, conformations, discomforting, disconformity, mortification, nonconforming, nonconformism, nonconformist, nonconformity, unforthcoming.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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