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Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column
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echinus
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WordNet
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n. ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column [also: echini (pl)]
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n. 1 (context architecture English) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. 2 (context architecture English) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. 3 (context ...
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Echinus may refer to: Echinus (Acarnania) , a town in Acarnania, western Greece Echinus (Phthiotis) , a town on the northern shore of the Malian Gulf in Greece Echinus (molding) , a molding similar to the ovolo Echinus (sea urchin) , a genus of animals ...
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Echinus \E*chi"nus\, n.; pl. Echini . [L., a hedgehog, sea urchin, Gr. 'echi^nos.] (Zo["o]l.) A hedgehog. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. (Arch.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital ...
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Among the molluscs and zoophytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleae.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
The museum comprehended an infinite number of medals, coins, urns, utensils, seals, cameos, intaglios, precious stones, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, spars, fossils, metals, minerals, ore, earths, sands, salts, bitumens, sulphurs, ambergrise, talcs, mirre, testacea, corals, sponges, echini, echenites, asteri, trochi, crustatia, stellae marine, fishes, birds, eggs and nests, vipers, serpents, quadrupeds, insects, human calculi, anatomical preparations, seeds, gums, roots, dried plants, pictures, drawings, and mathematical instruments.
Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones - the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Early in the boring the sandstone had given place to a vein of Comanchian limestone, full of minute fossil cephalopods, corals, echini, and spirifera, and with occasional suggestions of siliceous sponges and marine vertebrate bones--the latter probably of teleosts, sharks, and ganoids.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
Among the mollusks and zoöphytes, I found in the meshes of the net several species of alcyonarians, echini, hammers, spurs, dials, cerites, and hyalleæ.