conoidal
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Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various
Keen has recorded a case in which a conoidal ball lodged in the body of the third cervical vertebra, from which it was extracted six weeks later.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Comets; the nucleus and tail; various forms and directions of the emanations in conoidal envelopes, with more or less dense walls.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
B. Sc.—Combination of two conoidal lenses.—Range of power obtained.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 by Various
The red rover of that region will disappear as a combatant in the same way, and before the same weapon, as his brother nomad of Algeria, the earliest victim of the conoidal bullet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
