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monopteros

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A classical structure consisting of a circle of pillars supporting a domed roof, often serving as a temple.

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  • noun architecture A classical temple made up of one circle of columns supporting a roof.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin monopteros, consisting of a monopteros, having a single row of columns and no cella : Greek mono–, mono- + Greek pteron, wing, winglike thing (perhaps on the model of Greek peripteros, flying or going all around, having a single row of columns all around); see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Latin monopteros, from Ancient Greek μονο- ("mono-") + πτερόν ("wing; circle of columns").

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Examples

  • Mausoleum of Halicarnassus as its prototype, is some 63 feet tall, with relief sculptures on all sides of the podium, which supports a four-sided structure with engaged Corinthian columns framing a central arch on each face; the structure is surmounted by a circular Corinthian colonnade (monopteros) with a conical roof.

    Insight: A Visit to Ancient Glanum 1998

  • T, Jürgens G (1993) The role of the monopteros gene in organising the basal body region of the Arabidopsis

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • The monopteros mutant, for example, is expressed in the Arabidopsis embryo, and the mutant is characterized by abnormal divisions in the prospective procambial tissue in the embryo and defective cotyledonary vein formation

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

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