Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In natural history, inversely conical; conical, with the apex downward.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany of a fruit, conical in shape and attached to the stalk by the pointed end.
- adj. Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Conical, but having the apex downward; inversely conical.
Etymologies
- ob- + conic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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”
Internet Archive: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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