pelecoid
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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πέλεκῠς (pélekus, “axe, hatchet”) + -oid.[1]
Adjective
pelecoid (comparative more pelecoid, superlative most pelecoid)
- Hatchet-shaped.
- 1873 January, “Our Noses”, in The Aldine, volume VI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: James Sutton & Co., Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16, column 2:
- He whom nature has supplied with a pelecoid nose is as cold, keen and sharp as the hatchet after which it was modeled. He is generally a dyspeptic, and hates people.
- 1907, A J Fynn, The American Indian as a Product of Environment: With Special Reference to the Pueblos, Boston, M.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, page 215:
- Two more rows like the ones already constructed, except as to color, complete the pattern, which, when finished, forms a pleasing array of orderly pelecoid figures.
- 1965, Albert Christian Revi, American Cut and Engraved Glass, Nashville, T.N., New York, N.Y.: Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 179:
- The leading feature of the "Valencian" pattern consists of the large central figure having radiating lines representing extending and withdrawing rays; there are also pelecoid figures, and double-pointed figures between the pelecoids.
References
- ^ “pelecoid, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
