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pyramidate, a. rare.|pɪˈræmɪdət|
[ad. late L. pȳramidāt-us, f. pȳramid-em: see -ate2 2.]
Fashioned as a pyramid; = pyramidal 2.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xiii. xix. 258 Experiments may be seene in diverse sorts of [perspective] glasses; as in the hollowe, the plaine, the embossed, the columnarie, the pyramidate or piked, the turbinall, the bounched. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xlvi. IV. 289 Pyramidate Fascia,..a band which juts out into an angle on one side.
So pyˈramidated a., formed with pyramids, or into a pyramid.
1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 196 A crystal is named pyramidated, when the primitive form is a prism, and has a pyramid on each extremity. 1903Nature 1 Oct. 530/2 Some of the pyramidated summits among the South American volcanoes. |