Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In natural history, inversely conical; conical, with the apex downward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany of a fruit,
conical in shape and attached to the stalk by the pointed end. - adjective Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
Etymologies
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ob- + conic
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Examples
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The spikelets are one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely jointed and persistent on their obconic short pedicels, narrowly lanceolate and terete.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Body black, punctured; antennae piceous; first joint obconic, not longer than the second and third together, which are equal; 4-10 joints moniliform; last joint ovate acute; palpi pale piceous; terminal joint minute, that of the labial longer; thorax oblong-quadrate; angles rounded; glabrous line none; elytra black piceous, punctures not Vol.IV. — 5 454
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