pyramidal

From medieval Latin pyramidalis.

• enPR: pĭ-rămʹĭ-dəl IPA^(key): /pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/

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pyramidal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Pyramid-shaped.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.

   • 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52:

     Among its attractive features were decorative, tile-hung Italianate towers with pyramidal roofs.

   1. (crystallography) Tetragonal.

pyramidal (plural pyramidals)

1. (anatomy) One of the carpal bones.

• peripyramidal

• cuneiform

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pyramidal (feminine pyramidale, masculine plural pyramidaux, feminine plural pyramidales)

1. pyramidal

• vente pyramidale

• “pyramidal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.