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CONICAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or resembling a cone

Example:

conelike fruit

Synonyms:

cone-shaped; conelike; conic; conical

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

cone (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

Derivation:

cone (any cone-shaped artifact)

cone (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

cone (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

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 Context examples: 

Into this opening several bamboo canes had been inserted and the other ends of these canes were in contact with conical clay funnels which collected the gas bubbling up through the mud of the geyser.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each lung is irregularly conical in shape, presenting a blunt upper extremity (the apex), a concave base following the curve of the diaphragm, an outer convex surface (costal surface), an inner or mediastinal surface (mediastinal surface), a thin and sharp anterior border, and a thick and rounded posterior border.

(Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)