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The tree has a conical shape.
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Use upright conical varieties as focal points in outdoor winter planters.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2025
Once used by shepherds to call cows from the pastures, the long, conical instruments are now used in folk music, brought out for celebrations.
—Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Its conical Art Nouveau pinnacles have the lumpy beauty of sandcastles.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The conical shape of the gas gave the system its nickname of the Bullet Cluster, which is also appropriate because the second cluster is smaller than the other one and appears to have blasted right through it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Nov. 2025
Once used by shepherds to call cows from the pastures, the long, conical instruments are now used in folk music, brought out for celebrations.
—Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Its conical Art Nouveau pinnacles have the lumpy beauty of sandcastles.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The conical shape of the gas gave the system its nickname of the Bullet Cluster, which is also appropriate because the second cluster is smaller than the other one and appears to have blasted right through it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Conical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conical. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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