conoid

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A pair of Conoid lounge chairs from the famed woodworker George Nakashima, which in 2019 commanded around $10,000, sold in October 2020 for $23,750 through the Chicago auction house Wright.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2021

Conoid, kōn′oid, n. anything like a cone in form.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Helicosophie, is nere Sister to Trochilike: and is, An Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth the designing of all Spirall lines in Plaine, on Cylinder, Cone, Sphære, Conoid, and Sphæroid, and their properties appertayning.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John