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Top-shaped adj. [ Botany ]
Synonym: Turbinated, Obconic or Inversely conical.

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Shaped like an inverted cone with a narrow base and a wider top.

Top-shaped describe a solid having an abruptly tapering base and a broad rounded flattened apex, having the shape of a top; cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.

Said of a fruit, ovary, or other part: conical and attached by the apex.

Compare with conic

From Latin "ob-"meaning "in the opposite direction or reversed" + conic.

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