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
The first step in this operation is to form conically shaped center-holes in each end of the piece as indicated at c in Fig.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
The ends of this pipe are conically drilled and they interconnect; there is no drilled hole connecting the bowl with the mouth end, as in the larger specimen.
From A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 by William C. Massey
This is, as I have said, composed of large "beehive" houses thatched conically with straw.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
