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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arched; concave: as, a vaulted roof.
  • Covered with an arch or vault.
  • Provided with vaults or underground passages.
  • In botany, arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
  • In zoology, notably arched or convex, as a shell, or the beak of a bird; fornicated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Arched; concave.
  • adjective Covered with an arch, or vault.
  • adjective (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of vault.
  • adjective architecture Of a ceiling supported by arches, introduced in the Gothic style.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a hemispherical vault or dome

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