iconographic

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This suggests a "hybrid" nature of these death whistle sounds, combining a basic psychoaffective influence on listeners with more elaborate mental processes of sound symbolism, signifying the iconographic nature.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

Kings Starter jacket, the ribbed corduroy from the house shoes her dad would buy at the swap meet, a quilted inside that draws from the iconographic element of a Chanel bag.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024

Without images of an object, an iconographic study “is unintelligible,” says Vernon James Knight, an archaeologist and professor emeritus at the University of Alabama, who signed the petition.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023

The built-in décor of the iconographic Space Needle and International Fountain doesn’t hurt either.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

Representational, iconographic, or mimic hieroglyphs, in which case each hieroglyph is a picture of the object referred to.

From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James