conoid
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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
Archimedes developed the proportions necessary for effecting this comparison, in his treatises on the sphere and cylinder, the spheroid and conoid, and in his work on the measure of the circle.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner
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
The only large building is the Jami or Cathedral, a long barn of poverty-stricken appearance, with broken-down gates, and two white-washed minarets of truncated conoid shape.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The stolen object is a globe; the object presented in exchange is an elliptical conoid studded with angular projections along the edge of the base.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
