Definition of Cymatia

1. cymatium [n] - See also: cymatium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymatia

cyma
cyma inversa
cyma recta
cyma rectum
cyma reversa
cymae
cymae inversae
cymae rectae
cymae reversae
cymar
cymarin
cymarine
cymars
cymas
cymata
cymatia (current term)
cymatic
cymatics
cymatium
cymatogeny
cymatograph
cymatoid
cymatoscope
cymatotrichous
cymba conchae
cymbal
cymbaleer
cymbaleers
cymbaler
cymbalers

Literary usage of Cymatia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read by Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club (1867)
"Not rare at Heaton and Gosforth in August and September. C. limitata. Rare. cymatia ... cymatia ..."

2. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"Flor had, in I860, separated coleoptrata, &c., to form a new genus cymatia, but the first attempt at the establishment of " sections ... cymatia, Flor, 1860 ..."

3. Catalogue of the Specimens of Heteropterous-Hemiptera in the Collection of by Francis Walker (1873)
"800— cymatia coleoptrata, Dougl. and Scott, Hem. 614. a—e. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. /—i. England. • 2. ..."

4. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"... inclose the aperture of the door (lumen ostii) and are framed with cymatia and astragals. To these are added over the lintel 3. ..."

5. The Foundations of Classic Architecture by Herbert Langford Warren (1919)
"The Lesbian cyma and the echinus are the mouldings chiefly used for cymatia in the Doric style. They have the effect of finishing with greater firmness and ..."

6. Finis pyramidis; or, Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific by Thomas Gabb (1806)
"exceeds other cymatia, as that belonging to the corona, at least six-fold. Moreover, from the use and end of cymatia, it is manifest, it could not there be ..."

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