Conelike

High school student Sean Belahovick's vision started deteriorating to the point of being blind in one eye when it was discovered that he was suffering from keratoconus, a disorder in which the cornea begins to bulge out and turn conelike. ❋ Unknown (2011)

His weed-beating strategy included using young plants in conelike soil cells, called plugs, in addition to seeds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the end of the market is a tall, whitewashed, conelike tower, with black intertwining snakes painted on all its sides—the temple. ❋ Aravind Adiga (2008)

In birches, they resemble long, conelike structures, dangling down from amid the leaves. ❋ Gardner, Lisa (2003)

Purple fruiting bodies burst from conelike structures that emerged at random from each shiny coil. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)

In the conelike pool of the headlights stood the log cabin where Jessy lived. ❋ Janet Dailey (1983)

I lay back down then in my chains, on the small iron floor of the cage, my knees pulled up high, and looked upward at the hollow, conelike ceiling of the cage. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1983)

The three-lobed hop leaves twining around one of the trees gave her another idea, but she decided to use the powdered dry hops she had with her, since the conelike fruit would not mature until later. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1980)

June — on the ends of the topmost branches only, a few minute and delicate red conelike blossoms, the fertile flower of the white pine looking heavenward. ❋ Unknown (1969)

The four were at the bottom of a huge, conelike pit, such as instantly reminded the doctor of a medical clinic. ❋ Homer Eon Flint (1908)

In others the stems are all alike, green and crowned with a conelike spike of sporangia-bearing scales. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

About seven in the evening of that day, after having clambered up two thousand of these rough steps, we found ourselves overlooking a kind of spur or projection of the mountain -- a sort of buttress upon which the conelike crater, properly so called, leaned for support. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

The child, about 2,800 years old, is displayed next to a sheep's udder shaped into a conelike drinking vessel. ❋ Sue Manning/Associated Press Writer (2010)

When they reduced the amount of Pias3 in developing mouse eyes, they found that the cells that might otherwise have been rod cells instead developed into conelike cells.