Realizing this, the builders of Anjou soon began to reduce the size of the ribs until they became little more than torus mouldings running along the groin and ridge of the vault.
The Ulodendron was sculptured into gracefully arranged rows of pointed and closely imbricated leaves, similar to those into which the Roman architects fretted the torus of the Corinthian order.
On the back of the lion the architect has placed a coussinet, surmounted by a torus and by the stem of the column.
This peculiarity, which is common enough, among the Eskimo and certain Siberian tribes, but is otherwise exceedingly rare, must be regarded as a hyperostosis of the same nature as the so-called torus palatinus.
Three of these parts constitute the torus at the top, and the other four are to be divided equally, one part constituting the upper trochilus with its astragals and overhang, the other left for the lower trochilus.
The semi-circular arch of the gate is formed of a grain adorned with a simpletorus molding.
His semi-circular arch is formed of a grain molded with a torusand topped by a chamfer carved with a row of slightly visible saw-teeth.
Divided by a small column with a square abacus and a square base, these twin bays are topped by a semi-circular arch molded with a simple torus and resting on attached columns.
The square base is topped by a doubletorus is below ground level.
The Romanesque gate in the south base of the tower, with a semi-circular arch formed by a grain molded by a torus followed by a chamfer carved with slightly visible saw-teeth.
The door certainly underwent an overhaul: both capitals, without an astragalus, are not well connected to the shaft of the columns and to the beginning of the arch, the torus of which is cut.
Flowers on drooping pedicels; calyx divided usually into 5 linear acute thin and scarious lobes rounded on the back, more or less laciniately cut, and often furnished with a tuft of pale hairs at apex; torus hoary-tomentose.
The development of the torus or receptacle of a flower within the calyx or within the corolla and stamens.
Fruit a subglobose berry raised on the thickened torus of the flower, with thick juicy black flesh.
Flowers on slender pubescent pedicels; calyx divided into five linear acute scarious lobes laciniately cut at apex; torus hoary-tomentose.
Flowers opening toward the end of March on pubescent pedicels; calyx divided into five oblong scarious lobes narrowed and rounded at apex; torus tomentose.
Fragment of the base of an unfinished column, with torus moulding and horizontal flutings only partially carried out.
It is encircled by a double torus moulding at the top, and above this moulding a hole is pierced in the marble, as if there was here a ring for suspension or to serve as a handle.
Contrasting pleasingly with this fret and on opposite sides of it are a plain molded ovolo outlining the panel and a small floreated torus supplemented by a molded cymatium within.
Instead of the usual pilasters the entablature is supported by two pairs of slender reeded colonnettes, and the fireplace opening is framed by moldings in which a torus enriched with a rope motive is prominent.
The slender torus usually distinguished the eight-branch Plantagenet type, and its use here for simple diagonals is an exception.
The Cistercians introduced the torus profile of diagonals, but they long clung to round-headed windows.
We have already referred to the probable origin of the peculiar batter or raking side given to the walls of the pylons and temples, with the Torus moulding surrounding the same and crowned with the cavetto cornice.
The stamens arise from the thalamus or torus within the petals, with which they generally alternate, forming one or more whorls, which collectively constitute the androecium.
Upon this torus the parts of the flower are arranged in a crowded manner, usually forming a series of verticils, the parts of which alternate; but they are sometimes arranged spirally especially if the floral axis be elongated.
In the more primitive types of flowers the torus is more or less convex, and the series of organs follow in regular succession, culminating in the carpels, in the formation of which the growth of the axis is closed (fig.
The enlarged toruscovering the ovary in Nymphaea (Castalia) and Nelumbium may be regarded as a form of disk.
Take a look at the space within the right angle of the torus coils," said Arcot junior.
The center of the floor was occupied by a heavy pedestal of lux metal upon which was a huge, relux-encased, double torus storage coil.
Thalamaflorous, with petals and stamens inserted on thetorus or Thalamus.
The cathedral has a doorway on the south side not now used; the round arch has a torus moulding, pilaster strips, and caps beneath a gabled hood, made of the local marble and bleached by the sun to a delightful varied yellow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corona; flower; frieze; petal; pistil; receptacle; stamen; stigma; style
