conoid

& a. [Gr. kōnos =a cone, and eidos = a shape.] A. As substantive: Geom.: A solid, the surface of which is traced out by the revolution of a conic section about its axis. If the revolving body be a parabola, the re sulting conoid is a parabolic conoid or paraboloid; if an ellipse, it is an elliptic conoid, ellipsoid, or spheroid; and if a hyperbola, it is a hyperbolic conoid hyperboloid. B. As adj .: Resembling a cone. "The tympanum is not capable of tension as a drum: there remains another way, by drawing it to the center into a conoid form."- Holder : Elements of Speech. Conoid ligament: Anat .: A ligament constituting part of the concavo-clavicular one of the shoulder-bone. cō-noi-dal, a. [Eng. conoid ; -al .] Bot., .: Resembling a cone, but not one truly. Example, the calyx of Silene conoidea. "The thorax is a conoidal cavity, slightly flattened on its anterior aspect."- Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. i., ch. vi., p. 142. cō-năm-in-ee, s. [Pref. co con, and nominee (q. v).] A joint nominee. "They, therefore, looked about to find a co-nominee in fied." -Sketches from Cambridge , p. 124. (1865.) the most utterly disreputable person who was duly qualiCo-non-ites, s. pl . [Named after Conon, Bishop of Tarsus in the sixth century.] Ch. Hist .: A sect of Tritheists founded by the Conon mentioned in the etymology. The Tritheists were divided into Philoponites and Cononites, who differed in some matters regarding the resurrection of the body, the Cononites maintaining matter only, and not the form of the body, that the ruptible, and to be resuscitated, while the Philoponites thought both would be so. [PHILOPONITES.] cō-nop-i-dæ, s. pl . [Gr. kõnõps =a gnat or mos conquer cô-nô-sperm i-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. conosper mium, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] Bot . A tribe of Proteacese, sub-order Nucamentacesæ