Meanings
adjectiveconoidal (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving 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 Paige1 more example
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
Translations
Catalan conoidal
- conoidalhaving the shape of a conoid
French conoïdal
- conoïdalhaving the shape of a conoid
Portuguese conoidal
- conoidalhaving the shape of a conoid
Spanish conoideo, conoidal
- conoideohaving the shape of a conoid
- conoidalhaving the shape of a conoid
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with conoidal
colloidalsinusoidaltoroidalsteroidalnonsteroidaltrapezoidalellipsoidalchoroidalspheroidalsigmoidalhemorrhoidalcuboidalsolenoidalasteroidaladenoidalaliethmoidalalkaloidalamygdaloidalbotryoidalchancroidalcoccoidalconchoidalcrinoidalcrystalloidal
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Chicago
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