conoid
Americanadjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of conoid
From the Greek word kōnoeidḗs, dating back to 1650–60. See cone, -oid
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Its conoid head is very elongated, and by reason of this elegant form it always falls upon its point, even at falling angles of an amplitude approaching 60 degrees.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
It is an obtuse conoid, closed with a star-shaped disk.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Apart from its pillars, the egg-pocket is an inverted conoid, reminding us of the work of the Silky Epeira.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
On these heights, which are mostly conoid with rounded tops, joined by ridges and saddlebacks, various kinds of Acacia cast a pallid and sickly green, like the olive tree upon the hills of Provence.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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