Definition of Pyramis

1. n. A pyramid.

Definition of Pyramis

1. a pyramid [n -ES] - See also: pyramid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyramis

pyramidia
pyramidic
pyramidical
pyramidically
pyramiding
pyramidion
pyramidism
pyramidlike
pyramidoid
pyramidoids
pyramidological
pyramidologist
pyramidologists
pyramidology
pyramids
pyramis (current term)
pyramises
pyramoid
pyramoids
pyran
pyranine
pyranines
pyranoglucoside
pyranoid
pyranometer
pyranometers
pyranometric
pyranonaphthoquinone
pyranone
pyranones

Literary usage of Pyramis

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

1. Euclide's Elements: The Whole Fifteen Books Compendiously Demonstrated by Euclid, Isaac Barrow, Thomas Haselden, Archimedes (1732)
"Of tb« nature of a trilateral and equilateral pyramis. I. A trilateral equilateral pyramis is divided into two equal parts, by three equal {quares, ..."

2. Guide to the Systematic Distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1857)
"(Page 155.) § Axis of shell imperforated, slightly concave in front. 1. pyramis. Shell conical, imperforated, flat in front; ..."

3. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"Stimulation of the left side of the pyramis at its cephalic extremity ... Stimulation of the pyramis near the spinal cord results in movements of the ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1851)
"An. s. Vert. t. vii. p. 18. Hab. Mindanao and Madagascar. 3. pyramis ... 3582. no. 99. Hab. Capul, on the reefs. 9. pyramis FENESTRATUS, Gmel. ..."

5. Saturday Night Sketches: Stories of Old Wiregrass Georgia by John Lewis Herring (1918)
"Ill The story of pyramis and Thisbe embraces lines 55 through 166 of the fourth ... pyramis and Thisbe, two lovers of Babylon whose parents relentlessly ..."

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