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saucer dome
noun
, Architecture.
- a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of saucer dome1
First recorded in 1890–95
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