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pyramidical adjective uk /ˌpɪr.əˈmɪ.dɪ.kəl/ us /ˌpɪr.əˈmɪ.dɪ.kəl/ shaped or organized in a structure that is wide at the bottom and forms a point at the top, like a pyramid: It has a pyramidical wooden support in its centre. They transformed the organization from a pyramidical structure with a leader and soldiers below into a looser network. These huge, pyramidical mountains reach their climax around the dramatic shores of Loch Seaforth. It offered a model of a pyramidical system of governance. It had roots in a pyramidical race and class structure in which slave labour provided the basis for the wealth of white plantation and farm owners. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Geometrical shapes -cornered circularly congruently conic cylindrically lozenge orbicular ovally ovoid parallelogram pentagon polyhedron polytope prism pyramid quadrilateral rectangle rectangular rhombus three-dimensional
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