Associations to the word «Echinus»
Wiktionary
ECHINUS, noun. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
ECHINUS, noun. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
ECHINUS, noun. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.
ECHINUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Echinidae — certain sea urchins.
Dictionary definition
ECHINUS, noun. Ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column.
Wise words
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fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.