CONICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conical mean? 

• CONICAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONICAL has 1 sense:

1. relating to or resembling a cone

  Familiarity information: CONICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or resembling a cone

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

cone-shaped; conelike; conic; conical

Context example:

conelike fruit

Pertainym:

cone (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

Derivation:

cone (any cone-shaped artifact)

cone (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

cone (a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point)

 Context examples 

A conical membranous sac filled with serous fluid in which the heart as well as the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels are contained.

(Pericardium, NCI Thesaurus)

In the resting state the stereocilia are leaning on each other in a conical bundle and touch the tectorial membrane.

(Inner Hair Cell of the Organ of the Corti, NCI Thesaurus)

In the resting state the stereocilia are leaning on each other in a conical bundle and are embedded in the tectorial membrane.

(Outer Hair Cell of the Organ of the Corti, NCI Thesaurus)

A small conical midline body attached to the posterior part of the third ventricle and lying between the superior colliculi, below the splenium of the corpus callosum.

(Murine Pineal Gland, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It forms the anterior part of the labyrinth, is conical, and is placed almost horizontally anterior to the vestibule.

(Cochlea, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

All three seemed sharp and conical in figure.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can imagine my exultation, Watson, when within two inches of my peg I saw a conical depression in the ground.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The inferior surface of the conical membranous sac in which the heart and roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels are contained.

(Base of the Pericardium, NCI Thesaurus)

A thickening of the skin due to friction or pressure which results in the formation of a small, painful, raised bump associated with a conical mass pointing down into the dermis.

(Corn, NCI Thesaurus)

One of two small conical nodules of elastic cartilage which caps the apex of the arytenoid cartilages.

(Corniculate Cartilage, NCI Thesaurus)