pulvinate

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English

Etymology

Latin pulvinatus, from pulvinus (“a cushion, an elevation”).

Adjective

pulvinate (comparative more pulvinate, superlative most pulvinate)

  1. (architecture) Curved convexly or swelled.
    a pulvinated frieze
  2. (zoology) Having the form of a cushion, or used to cushion/provide padding.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulvinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

pulvīnāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of pulvīnātus
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