Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cuneiform bone of the carpus, more fully called os pyramidate.

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Examples

  • Dispersed in the grasslands are trees of Crecentia cujete, Ceiba pentandra, Lecythis minor, Ochroma pyramidale, Prosopis juliflora, Cavanillesia platanifolia and palms trees of Sabal mauritiiformis, Acrocomia aculeate, Attalea butyracea and several Bactris spp.

    Sinú Valley dry forests 2008

  • In some respects this enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and for Gothic architecture in particular was a matter of fashion: thus Parisian letters of 1834 record as superlatives current in the salons — alongside such curiosities as pyramidale, babylonien, and apocalyptique — the epithets gothique, ogival, and flamboyant.

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

  • Balsa wood, Ochroma pyramidale, is a hardwood, whereas pitch pine, Pinus rigida, a very durable timber, is a softwood.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Figure 2D, we illustrate the spontaneous baseline activity of 1-3 Hz observed under control conditions, the increased 5-10 Hz field activity recorded in the stratum pyramidale of CA3 during application of 10 μM Cch and the synaptic enhancement observed in the cornus ammonis 1 (CA1) region.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

  • Hippocampal CA1 stratum pyramidale is in the upper left region of the movie with the proximal portion of stratum radiatum emerging towards the lower right quadrant of the movie.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William J. Tyler et al. 2008

  • Hippocampal CA1 stratum pyramidale is in the upper left region of the movie with the proximal portion of stratum radiatum emerging towards the lower right quadrant of the movie.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Hippocampal regions CA1 stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum radiatum (SR) are illustrated.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Hippocampal regions CA1 stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum radiatum (SR) are illustrated.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles William J. Tyler et al. 2008

  • Optime distinxit Cavanilles: Pericajrpium caiyce paulo brevius et obductum, pyramidale, setis densis pungentibus hispidum.

    Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796

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