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cacuminous

/kəˈkjuːmɪnəs/

cacuminous adjective: having a pyramidal top.

Adjective

cacuminous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having a pyramidal top.
    • Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
    • [A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]1597: John Hoskyns’ “A Tuftafffeta Speech”, printed in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour, and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 The Life, Letters, and Writings of John...

cacuminous meaning in Tamil

cacuminous in Tamil

பிரமிடு வடிவிலான தலைப்பாகத்தை உடைய, முனை முகடுள்ள, கூர்ங்குவடுள்ள

Examples of cacuminous in a sentence

  • Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;1834: James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165
  • Hours Of youth…and love ‛neath trees cacuminous.1871, Mortimer Collins, Inn Street Meetings, page 10:
  • Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.ante 1879: Mortimer Collins, Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand, volume 1, page 248

Origin of cacuminous

From oblique stem of Latin cacūmen, cacūminis (“extremity, point, peak”) + -ous.

Questions about cacuminous

What does cacuminous mean?
Cacuminous means having a pyramidal top.
What is cacuminous in Tamil?
Cacuminous in Tamil is பிரமிடு வடிவிலான தலைப்பாகத்தை உடைய, முனை முகடுள்ள, கூர்ங்குவடுள்ள. See Cacuminous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use cacuminous in a sentence?
Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
What part of speech is cacuminous?
Cacuminous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cacuminous?
Cacuminous is pronounced /kəˈkjuːmɪnəs/ (UK).

Words near cacuminous in the dictionary

  1. cacuminals
  2. cacuminate
  3. cacuminated
  4. cacuminates
  5. cacuminating
  6. cacuminous
  7. Cacán
  8. cad
  9. cad.
  10. CAD/CAM
  11. Cada

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