obconic

British  

/ ɒbˈkɒnɪk /

adjective

1. botany (of a fruit or similar part) shaped like a cone and attached at the pointed end

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Example Sentences

Perigynium obconic or obovoid, squarrose in exceedingly dense short spikes.—Sp.

From Project Gutenberg

Creeping, widely subpinnately branching; leaves imbricate, spreading, rounded, the lower lobe obtuse or acute; monœcious; perianth obconic, compressed, the mouth entire, truncate; antheridia in the bases of 2–3 pairs of strongly imbricate tumid leaves.—On rocks aud roots of trees; common.

From Project Gutenberg

Involucral leaves 2–6, the outer smaller, the inner variously cut; perianth small, obconic or campanulate, 3-angled and 3-lobed only at the apex, the lobes usually spinose.

From Project Gutenberg

Prostrate, horizontally branched, copiously rooting; leaves imbricate, horizontal, oval, entire or slightly repand; underleaves lanceolate; perianth terminal, broadly obconic, the mouth compressed, repand-crenulate.

From Project Gutenberg

Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.

From Project Gutenberg