pulvinated
/ˈpʌlvɪneɪtɪd/adjective
1Rounded, bulging (rare ); ( Architecture, of a frieze) having a convex face.
2 Botany. Of a leaf or leaflet: = pulvinate.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Martin Lister (bap. 1639, d. 1712), physician and naturalist. From classical Latin pulvīnātus cushion-shaped + -ed. With the specifically use in architecture in sense 1 compare Italian pulvino.
- first grade
- first-half
- first-hand
- first-handed
- first-handedness
- firsthandness
- firsthood
- firsting
- first intention
- First International
- First Lady
- first language
- first lieutenancy
- first lieutenant
- first light
- first-line
- firstling
- firstlins
- First Lord
- First Lord of the Admiralty
- First Lord of the Treasury
- first love
- first luff
- firstly
- first magistrate