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- Pyramidal - a. - Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.
- Pyramidal - a. - Same as Tetragonal.
- Pyramidal - n. - One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
- Pyramidally - adv. - Like a pyramid.
- Rosehead - n. - A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
- Bushhammer - n. - A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.
- Scalenohedron - n. - A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
- Pylon - n. - A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
- Pyramidal - a. - Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.
- Panicle - n. - A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
- Spire - n. - A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
- Liroconite - n. - A hydrated arseniate of copper, occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky-blue or verdigris-green color.
- Cuniform - n. - One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.
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