variants or less commonly conelike
: resembling a cone
a cone-like shape
conelike flowers

Examples of cone-like in a Sentence

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The new look includes ice cream wallpaper, a waffle cone-like ceiling, a red brick dairy case and black-and-gold touches throughout the store evoking the Oberweis super premium ice cream containers. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 Female hop plants produce a green, leafy, cone-like flower that is harvested. Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Brass pulls and turned, ice cream cone-like legs lend a vintage feel, while the overall silhouette is clean and modern. Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 2 Apr. 2025 The brush is tapered and cone-like to coat every hair without too much effort on your part—delivering a more natural look for the brow minimalists out there. Sarah Han, Allure, 5 Sep. 2024 Keratoconus: This progressive eye disease causes the cornea to thin and bulge into a cone-like shape, causing blurry vision and sensitivity to light. Lindsay Curtis, Health, 4 Sep. 2024 True to its name, the Temperature area featured a mountain of pillows and throws on an oversized bed, as well as comforters that were hung to look like icebergs and a lighting fixture made of blue cone-like forms that resembled icicles. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 8 Aug. 2024 Pipe a small cone-like shape in center of top of cake to create a rosebud. Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 30 May 2024 This tree sheds leaves and slender twigs annually and grows in a cone-like shape. Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 25 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cone-like was in 1665

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“Cone-like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cone-like. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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