Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the shape of a bell; campanulate; bell-shaped. Also campaniliform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Bell-shaped.

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  • adjective In the shape of a bell.

Etymologies

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Latin campana ("bell") + -form

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Examples

  • And here, in the Ramesseum, I found campaniform, or lotus-flower capitals on the columns -- here where Rameses once perhaps dreamed of his Syrian campaigns, or of that famous combat when, "like

    The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

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