conoidal
adjEtymology From conoid + -al.
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Having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
- And a moment later a conoidal bullet struck him square in the chest and knocked him flat in the dirt among his comrades.1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige:
- Many different forms have been given to the heads of projectiles, as flat, ogival, hemispherical, conoidal, parabolic, blunt trifaced, etc.1891, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891:
- Derived terms
- conoidally, interconoidal, intraconoidal, preconoidal