Crossword-Solution: CONUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conus | n. | A cone. |
| Conus | n. | A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONUS | anagram | OCNUS, ONCUS, UNCOS |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CONUS”
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| Latin for a tapered solid. | 1 answer |
| Mainland America, for short | 1 answer |
| Pyramid-shaped shell | 1 answer |
| The lower 48, in Pentagon-speak | 1 answer |
| Marine shell | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CONUS (5)
The information in this report is supplemented by the Reference Manual: Background Materials for the CONUS Volumes." The manual summarizes information on radiation physics, radiation health concepts, exposure criteria, and measurement techniques.
There is an absence of genera peculiar to hot climates, such as _Conus, Oliva, Fasciolaria, Crassatella_, and others.
Accordingly, in the marls belonging to this period at Asti, Parma, Sienna, and parts of the Tuscan and Roman territories, we observe the genera _Conus, Cypræa, Strombus, Pyrula, Mitra, Fasciolaria, Sigaretus, Delphinula, Ancillaria, Oliva, Terebellum, Terebra, Perna, Plicatula,_ and _Corbis_, some characteristic of tropical seas, others represented by species more numerous or of larger size than those now proper to the Mediterranean.
Thus it contains seven species of Cypræa, some larger than any existing cowry of the Mediterranean, several species of _Oliva, Ancillaria, Mitra, Terebra, Pyrula, Fasciolaria,_ and _ Conus._ Of the cones there are no less than eight species, some very large, whereas the only European cone now living is of diminutive size.
Plate 2, represents a mass of the rock containing numerous kinds of shells, of which the following are the most conspicuous: Cardium Pectunculus Corbula Arca Conus, and Others unknown.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Onion.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1964–2007).