It is often called the pyramidal or fastigiate poplar. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
We loved the presentation on the rice in pyramidal form. From Wordnik.com. [NJ Dining: Little Charm] Reference
The fibers from the motor area form into a bundle called the pyramidal tract, or pyramidal system. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
Scottish ell -- as in recent times the divine origin of the so-called pyramidal cubit and inch -- was pleaded rather strenuously. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
They are ordinarily called pyramidal or fastigiate forms, and as far as their history goes, they arise suddenly in large sowings of the normal species. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Most of the neurons within a column, and therefore within the cortex as a whole, are so-called pyramidal neurons, whose output excites the cell it synapses with. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference
The boy took a four-sectioned music stand and arranged on it all kinds of natural specimens, minerals and the like, until the whole formed a kind of pyramidal altar. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
"pyramidal" cubic inches; latterly he has elected it to be 71,250 cubic inches. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
"pyramidal" inches this idea is entirely built -- really a measure of this length?. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
It has that pyramidal structure, that Italian continuity. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
It was roughly pyramidal, with a base about 60 feet thick. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
Norman custom, with low pyramidal spires, probably of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The system is pyramidal and means highly centralized and autocratic power. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The inflorescence is a narrow pyramidal raceme of slender, spreading or deflexed spikes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
A shadowy garden, fragrant and dim, stretches up to the pyramidal pile which covers the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
According to the old drawings, these turrets should have been surmounted by pyramidal spires. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg] Reference
The finial, excluding its pyramidal base, should have the dimensions of the capital of a column. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The north and south ends of the transept are finished with the tall pyramidal pinnacles erected by Wyatt. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The bars were bent in at the point and inserted in a hollow pyramidal cast iron shoe weighing about 50 lbs. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The staircase at the south-west corner terminates at the top in a square turret with a pyramidal stone cap. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Originally the tower had perhaps a low pyramidal roof without a parapet, and then came several successive spires. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Our road was studded on both sides with lofty poplars, which seemed to shoot their pyramidal heads into the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
The very exceptions to the sweeping and comprehensive possessions of the seed of Jacob are pyramidal witnesses to the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
The phenomenon is not questioned, but the orthodox preference is to call it, not ax-like, nor wedge-shaped, but "pyramidal.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The bottom of this second chute was kept about 6 ins. below the top edges of a pyramidal hopper like the one described above. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Two pyramidal peaks, Haroeman and Kaleidon, rise sheer from the fair plain of Lelés in colossal stairways of green rice-terraces. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
A gate was fixed in the chute 2 ft. from the top and at the bottom the chute fed into a pyramidal hopper 3 ft. square at the top, 1 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Porte St. Blaise (straight up from the cathedral) a cross road leads to the Pierre Couchard (Coarre), a pyramidal monument of great antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Memories of the Killigrews are preserved by the curious pyramidal monument, erected in the Grove by Martin Killigrew in 1737, and now standing at Arwenack Green. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The legislative and political body was originally constructed in four groups, or tiers -- if we are to preserve the pyramidal simile -- one rising above the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Across the river, and in front of us, rises nearly perpendicularly a group of mountains, the summits of which are broken into many beautifully cut conical and pyramidal peaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
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