conic
adjective
Also conical having the form of, resembling, or pertaining to a cone.
conically
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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
This is, as I have said, composed of large "beehive" houses thatched conically with straw.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
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 Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
You approach it from the sea by a narrow entrance, flanked on either side by two small twin islets which soar conically to the height of some five hundred feet.
From Typee by Herman Melville
