CONUS


Meaning of CONUS in English

ˈkōnəs noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, cone — more at cone

1. capitalized : a very large genus (the type of the family Conidae) of pectinibranchiate tropical marine snails comprising the cones and including many beautiful and harmless forms and a few chiefly in the southwest Pacific that are highly dangerous by biting with the radula and injecting a paralytic venom that has been known to cause death in man — see geographer cone , textile cone

2. plural co·ni -ˌnī, -(ˌ)nē

[New Latin, by shortening]

: conus arteriosus

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.