Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the shape of a bell; campanulate; bell-shaped. Also
campaniliform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bell-shaped.
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- adjective In the shape of a bell.
Etymologies
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Latin campana ("bell") + -form
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Examples
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And here, in the Ramesseum, I found campaniform, or lotus-flower capitals on the columns -- here where Rameses once perhaps dreamed of his Syrian campaigns, or of that famous combat when, "like
The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens 1907
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