cacuminous

Definition

Having a pyramidal top.

Etymology

cacūmin- (the stem of the Latin cacūmen (“tree-top”)) + -ous

Example Sentences

• "Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ."
• "[A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]"
• "Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;"

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