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pulvinos

pulvinos is the plural of pulvino.

Meaning of pulvino

Noun

pulvino (plural pulvinos)

  1. A dosseret shaped like an inverted pyramid, placed between the column capital and the arch base.
  2. A structural element serving to distribute a load from a superimposed structure with higher mechanical resistance to a lower structure with lower resistance.

Questions about pulvinos

What is pulvinos the plural of?
Pulvinos is the plural of pulvino.

Words near pulvinos in the dictionary

  1. pulvinocortical
  2. pulvinoid
  3. pulvinoids
  4. pulvinone
  5. pulvinones
  6. pulvinos
  7. pulvinular
  8. pulvinuli
  9. pulvinulus
  10. pulvinus
  11. pulviplume

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulvinos (page history and authors); pulvino (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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