A shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point.
A spiral cytoskeletal structure located at the apical end of the apical complex in some apicomplexan parasites.
1It is an obtuse conoid, closed with a star-shaped disk.
2Some wreckage breaks away and falls casually to my side of the void, jarring the conoid.
3The stolen object is a globe; the object presented in exchange is an elliptical conoid studded with angular projections along the edge of the base.
4From some experiments I made myself a score of years ago, I am inclined to prefer a plane surface for the conoid to work upon.
5Schell records the case of a soldier who was wounded July 3, 1867, by a conoid ball from a Remington revolver of the Army pattern.
6He also wrote on conoids and spheroids.