In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
CONOIDS
Noun
conoids
plural of conoid
Source: Wiktionary
CONOID
Co"noid, n. Etym: [Gr. conoĂŻde.]
1. Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.
2. (Geom.) (a) A solid formed by the revolution of a conic section about its axis; as, a parabolic conoid, elliptic conoid, etc.; -- more commonly called paraboloid, ellipsoid, etc. (b) A surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner as always to meet a given straight line and a given curve, and continue parallel to a given plane. Math. Dict.
Co"noid
Definition: , Resembling a cone; conoidal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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