retinal cone

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   a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color

   Synonymsconecone cell

   Broadervisual cell

   Part ofretina

   Partsiodopsin

Questions about retinal cone

What does retinal cone mean?

retinal cone means "a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color".

What is another word for retinal cone?

Close synonyms include cone, cone cell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is retinal cone a common word?

retinal cone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.