conoid

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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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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 Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir