Meaning of શંકુ in English

Composed of shells; containing many shells.
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.
See Conine.
A rabbit. See Cony.
A fish. See Cony.
Alt. of Conical
A conic section.
Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel.
Of or pertaining to a cone; as, conic sections.
A magnesian variety of dolomite.
Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc.
A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane.
Resembling a cone; conoidal.
An American parrakeet of the genus Conurus. Many species are known. See Parrakeet.
A rabbit, esp., the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus)
The chief hare.
A simpleton.
An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.
A local name of the burbot.
All-powerful; omnipotent.