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· Middle French
cone
2 English words descend from Middle French
cone
, most common first.
cone
A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
ossicone
Either of the horn-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes and male okapi. Some extinct species in the family bore antler-like ossicones.