Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of several different pyramidal or pyriform muscles.

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Examples

  • The lowest of these muscles is called the pyramidalis, which attaches to the pubic bone.

    ChiWalking Katherine Dreyer 2006

  • The lowest of these muscles is called the pyramidalis, which attaches to the pubic bone.

    ChiWalking Katherine Dreyer 2006

  • The lowest of these muscles is called the pyramidalis, which attaches to the pubic bone.

    ChiWalking Katherine Dreyer 2006

  • The lowest of these muscles is called the pyramidalis, which attaches to the pubic bone.

    ChiWalking Katherine Dreyer 2006

  • Wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) and Echinochloa pyramidalis grasslands dominate the seasonally inundated floodplains.

    Saharan flooded grasslands 2008

  • Vegetation consists of Echinochloa pyramidalis, Vetiveria nigritana, Oryza longistaminata, and Hyparrhenia rufa.

    Lake Chad flooded savanna 2008

  • Erythrina poeppigiana, Sapium marmieri, and Ochroma pyramidalis.

    Beni savanna 2008

  • The southern half of the delta is low-lying floodplain with grasses such as Acroceras amplectens, Echinochloa pyramidalis, E. stagnina, and Eragrostis atroviriens.

    Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna 2008

  • Dominant and diagnostic grass species are Hyparrhenia hirta and Sporobolus pyramidalis.

    Highveld grasslands 2008

  • Whenever you practice leveling your pelvis, you should always straighten your upper body first see page 74, then level your pelvis by lifting up your pubic bone with your lowest abdominal muscle, the pyramidalis muscle.

    ChiWalking Katherine Dreyer 2006

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