used as combining form of SPHERIC a. in a few terms, as spherico-cylindrical, -tetrahedral, -triangular adjs.
1778. Phil. Trans., LXVIII. 69. The fourth and fifth shots were of a long form, which may be called spherico-cylindrical, as they were cylinders terminated by hemispherical ends.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 335/2. Buccal appendages spherico-triangular.
1857. M. J. Berkeley, Cryptog. Bot., § 636. 556. Sporangia … containing large spherico-tetrahedral spores.
1879. St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 522. A concavo-convex spherico-cylindrical glass, in preference to a biconvex spherico-cylindrical.
