pseudodipteral

[ soo-doh-dip-ter-uhl ]

/ ˌsu doʊˈdɪp tər əl /

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adjective Architecture.

having an arrangement of columns suggesting a dipteral structure but without the inner colonnade.

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Origin of pseudodipteral

1690–1700; <Greek pseudodípter(os) (see pseudo-, dipteral) + -al¹

Words nearby pseudodipteral

pseudo-colour, pseudocopulation, pseudocritical, pseudocyesis, Pseudo-Dionysius, pseudodipteral, pseudoephedrine, pseudo-event, pseudo force, pseudohemophilia, pseudohermaphrodite

How to use pseudodipteral in a sentence

These ideas are developed, as I have described, in the pseudodipteral arrangement of a temple.
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