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conoid

[koh-noid] / ˈkoʊ nɔɪd /


NOUN
cone
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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

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

Schell records the case of a soldier who was wounded July 3, 1867, by a conoid ball from a Remington revolver of the Army pattern.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Thanks to the lateral point of the stone anvil, which served the part of the conoid bicorn, he was able to forge rings rude in shape but strong.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

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


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