obconic

/ ɒbˈkɒnɪk /

adjective

1. botany (of a fruit or similar part) shaped like a cone and attached at the pointed end

Example Sentences

Perigynium obconic or obovoid, squarrose in exceedingly dense short spikes.—Sp.

From Project Gutenberg

Creeping, widely subpinnately branching; leaves imbricate, spreading, rounded, the lower lobe obtuse or acute; monœcious; perianth obconic, compressed, the mouth entire, truncate; antheridia in the bases of 2–3 pairs of strongly imbricate tumid leaves.—On rocks aud roots of trees; common.

From Project Gutenberg

Stems 6–10´´ long; leaves retuse, entire or irregularly indented; perianth obconic, dentate; elaters short and thick; spores brown, depressed-globose-tetrahedral, 40 µ broad, crested, the slender crests pellucid, rarely becoming confluent.—On damp ground.

From Project Gutenberg

Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.

From Project Gutenberg

Involucral leaves 2–6, the outer smaller, the inner variously cut; perianth small, obconic or campanulate, 3-angled and 3-lobed only at the apex, the lobes usually spinose.

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