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conoidal

conoidal adjective: having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.

Adjective

conoidal (not comparable)

  1. 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

Origin of conoidal

From conoid + -al.

Words formed from conoidal

Words that rhyme with conoidal

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Questions about conoidal

What does conoidal mean?
Conoidal means having the shape of a conoid; having a roughly conical shape.
What part of speech is conoidal?
Conoidal is an adjective.

Words near conoidal in the dictionary

  1. conodont
  2. conodontology
  3. conodonts
  4. conodurine
  5. conoid
  6. conoidal
  7. conoidally
  8. conoidean
  9. conoideans
  10. conoidic
  11. conoidical

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