acanthus

How To Use acanthus In A Sentence

• The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style.
• French Angelfish (Pomacanthus paru) forage in a similar manner, but they consume less gorgonian polyps and algae. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
• The wooden body is derived from models by Piranesi, including the cabriole legs ending in rams' heads on acanthus leaves and cloven-hoof feet.
• The acanthus refuses to die back and the lavatera has flowered continuously since the summer. Times, Sunday Times
• A graceful swan-neck broken pediment crown, spiraling acanthus, tobacco leaves, all of these help to express the character of the Aristocrat collection.
• Made entirely of gold, the legs were capitals shaped like lilies and entwined about the golden table were a filigree of vines entwined with acanthus, the sacred metal worked so expertly, he was sure that they were living plants of gold.
• The base is made of rippled walnut and amboyna, inset with marquetry of acanthus in satinwood (sand-burnt for three-dimensional effect), which was done by a Welsh firm, Anita Marquetry.
• The majority of fossils recovered from the site are acanthodian fish belonging to Mesacanthus and Ischnacanthus with occasional Euthacanthus, Parexus and Climatius.
• To a topologist, the fact that the fish species Scarus sp. can be continuously transformed into the species Pomacanthus is entirely unremarkable.
• Planted beneath it, and in the matching raised bed across the runnel, is a collection of bold and textural plants such as abutilon, acanthus, agapanthus, and Tasmanian tree fern.