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ECHINUS
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Irregular inflected form: echini
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("echinus" is a kind of...):
ovolo; quarter round; thumb (a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse)