conoidal
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It is of conoidal form, with an irregular elliptic base, and rises abruptly to a height of 1114 ft.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic and blunt trifaced all give more or less of the wedging effect.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 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
In this motion, the string forms a sort of conoidal surface, distended by centrifugal force.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
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
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