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Apophyge

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congénoun(architecture) Synonym of apophyge or cavetto, supports at the top or bottom of pillars, particularly rings or ferrils in the extremities of wooden pillars, added to provide support and prevent splintering, their imitation in stone, or a molding in the form of a quarter round.
scapusnoun(botany, zoology) A scape.
abacusnounA device used for performing arithmetical calculations; (rare) a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.
entasisnoun(architecture) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
kyphosnounThe convex prominence of kyphosis.
vergenounAn edge or border.
griffenounA claw-like ornament at the base of a column.
conchanounAny shell-shaped structure:
acrocephalianoun(medicine) A deformity of the head in which the top is more or less pointed.
acroterionnounAlternative form of acroterium. [(architecture) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture.]
cropnoun(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
chapiternoun(architecture) The capital or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported.
cyclostylenounA device used to make copies of a drawing or writing, via small punctures made in the outline
circumcrescencenounSynonym of epiboly.
acroternoun(architecture) An acroterium.
cincturenounA girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
conchnounA marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
cymenoun(botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.
helixnoun(mathematics) A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.
cyma rectanoun(architecture) A cyma concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part.

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