victoriousvocabulary:TORUS[noun]1. Architecture: a large convex molding, more or less semicircular i

victoriousvocabulary:TORUS[noun]1. Architecture: a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.2. Geometry: a) a doughnut-shaped surface generated by the revolution of a conic, especially a circle, about an exterior line lying in its plane. b) the solid enclosed by such a surface.3. Botany: a) the receptacle of a flower. b) a thickening of the wall membrane in the bordered pits occurring in the tracheid cells of the wood of many conifers.4) Anatomy: a rounded ridge; a protuberant part.Etymology: from Latin, literally, strand, thong, raised ridge.-Original: by Daniel Martin Diaz -- source link
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