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View definitions for pyramidal

pyramidal

adjective as in conical

adjective as in tapering

adjective as in tapering

adjective as in triangular

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Last year, Estonia furnished the bridge with dragon's teeth – pyramidal anti-tank obstacles of reinforced concrete.

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These fibers form a contact point to pyramidal cells -- the mossy fiber synapse.

Boasting moulded architraves with pilasters and a truncated pyramidal roof topped with iron brattishing, the building's roof is now falling into dereliction.

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Diamond is a form of pure carbon, in which carbon atoms bond tightly to one another in a pyramidal arrangement.

The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man as the crown of creation, with all other animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has never made sense.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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