conically
- a word derived from conic.
Example Sentences
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Later, I consider the European hornbeam tree before me, whose bare branches jut out conically, and an Asian dogwood tree, whose bark reddens in the winter.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
An investigating party beheld a hole in the earth 50 feet wide descending conically into blackness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The table w swings out of the way and a conically recessed cup chuck c is carried in a bracket fitting into a guideway in the vertical bed g.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
These nooks have all been taken possession of by fishermen, and their conically beehive- shaped huts always peep from under the frondage.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
The bowl and stem are both conically excavated.
From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by Holmes, William Henry
