promontoriumn.
/ˌprɒm(ə)nˈtɔːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌprɑmənˈtɔriəm/ 1. = promontory n. 1. rare.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun]
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1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 2 Promontorium, is a high mountaine which shooteth it selfe into the Sea, the outmost end of which, is called a Cape, as the Cape of good hope in Africk. &c.
1871 Daily News 23 Jan. This long bluff..its promontorium throws forward, as it were, two sheltering wings for batteries stationed in the narrow waist behind.
1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 253 You see that promontorium north there, where big trees stand with big paws walking on the water?
2. Anatomy. = promontory n. 2.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun]
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1791 W. Vaughan Expos. Princ. Anat. & Physiol. II. 242 The bony space between the fenestræ protruding into the tympanum is called Promontorium.
1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 111 The sacrum is articulated to the fifth lumbar vertebra... Its junction with the spinal column forms a projecting angle named the Promontory (promontorium).
1879 Mind 4 154 A thin cicatricial tissue extended inward to the promontorium over the stapes and fenestra rotunda.
1979 Nature 25 Oct. 670/1 The earliest eutherians maintained this general pattern, adding a neomorphic vessel, the promontory artery, which crossed the lateral side of the promontorium.
1991 Spine 16 209 The sacrum moved downward and rotated forward over an axis 5-9 cm below the promontorium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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