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semiconical

semiconical adjective: half-conical; partly conical.

Adjective

semiconical (not comparable)

  1. Half-conical; partly conical.
    • Animal unknown but supposed to be closely allied to the Belemnite. Shell internal, oblong, semiconical, with the apex inflected towards the ventral aspect, and enlarged into an obtuse umbo, pierced by a pore on the ventral surface; the anterior part hollowed into a deep semiconical cavity extending...1877, Frederic Erasmus Edwards, Searles Valentine Wood, “Cephalopoda”, in A Monograph of the Eocene Cephalopoda and Univalves of England, volume I, Palaeontographical Society, page 38

Origin of semiconical

From semi- + conical.

Questions about semiconical

What does semiconical mean?
Semiconical means half-conical; partly conical.
What part of speech is semiconical?
Semiconical is an adjective.

Words near semiconical in the dictionary

  1. semiconfluent
  2. semiconformist
  3. semiconformists
  4. semiconformity
  5. semiconic
  6. semiconical
  7. semiconjugacies
  8. semiconjugacy
  9. semiconjugate
  10. semiconnate
  11. semiconnected

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