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pyramidal

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From medieval Latin pyramidalis.

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  • enPR: pĭ-rămʹĭ-dəl IPA(key): /pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/
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pyramidal (not comparable)

  1. (geometry) Pyramid-shaped.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.
    • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:
      Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
    • 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52:
      Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.
    1. (crystallography) Tetragonal.

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pyramidal (plural pyramidals)

  1. (anatomy) One of the carpal bones.

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pyramidal (feminine pyramidale, masculine plural pyramidaux, feminine plural pyramidales)

  1. pyramidal

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