Sentence examples for cones from high-quality English sources.

• We have the fewest number of blue cones.”

• Male and female cones are usually borne on separate individuals.

• The cooked cones can be made a day earlier and stored in an airtight container.

• "When rugby started here we had 100 schools with no materials, no balls, no kits, no cones.

• Tuff cones are higher and steeper, with craters above ground level.

• Signals from the cones go to the brain, which interprets them as color.

• In contrast, the outer edges of the retina contain few cones and many rods.

• The compound seed-bearing (ovule-bearing) cones also have many spirally arranged scales.

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• After a traffic stop, I’d been discovered in possession of some three dozen rubber traffic cones.

• Pine-tree cones, however, produce seeds; the cones of the club mosses produce spores.

• …to green is known as deuteranopia, wherein green cones are lacking and blue and red cones are functional.

• Blindness to red is known as protanopia, a state in which the red cones are absent, leaving only the cones that…

• Blindness to green is known as deuteranopia, wherein green cones are lacking and blue and red cones are functional.

• Male cones produce pollen that is carried by wind to female cones (borne on separate plants), where fertilization occurs.

• A region of comparatively recent volcanic activity, which left a lava plateau, cinder cones, spatter cones formed by bubbling lava, and broken crater walls (the Devil’s Orchard).

• In some species the cones open at maturity and the seeds are released, while in others the cones remain closed for several years until opened by rotting, by food-seeking animals, or by fire.

cones sentence examples

• …European, or Scots, pine (Pinus sylvestris), for example, the female cones (essentially collections of megasporophylls) begin to develop in winter and are ready to receive pollen from the male cones in spring.

• Pyroclastic cones (also called cinder cones or scoria cones) such as Cerro Negro in Nicaragua are relatively small, steep (about 30°) volcanic landforms built of loose pyroclastic fragments, most of which are cinder-sized.

• Jack pine and lodgepole pine have cones that remain closed on the tree (serotinous), and black spruce has semiserotinous cones; these cones do not open to release their seeds until a wax layer is melted by the heat of fire.

• …blue-yellow colour blindness are known: tritanopia (blindness to blue, usually with the inability to distinguish between blue and yellow), which occurs when blue cones are absent; and tritanomaly (reduced sensitivity to blue), which arises from the abnormal function of blue cones.