Meaning of शंकु in English

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.
A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.
The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
To make or cause to taper.