How To Use Acanthus In A Sentence
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The Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
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This rope feature and the lion paw feet, legs, and exaggerated acanthus leaves are very similar to the one at Glin.
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Although this is a typical Islamic motif, it traces its origins to the vine and acanthus scroll ornament of the late antique classical world, and the pattern itself refers back on the other hand to early Syrian textiles.
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The architectural ornament is of that easy and delectable kind which mimics nature: the acanthus leaves of Corinthian capitals, garlands and trophies in the manner of Wren and Grinling Gibbons.
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The wallpaper was a sepia-toned print of acanthus leaves; the carpet had plate-sized pink roses all over it.
T2©: RISING STORM
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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.
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The tops of the legs are headed by weird lions' masks making a meal of acanthus leaves and the background is criss-crossed with a diaper pattern.
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In Fat of the Lamb, white fat winds around viscous sinew and muscle as if in emulation of the frame's sinuous acanthus motif.
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Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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Abutilon, acanthus, and nandina provide a back-drop, and double impatiens and coleus add seasonal color.
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Many featured floral and botanical patterns, often the lily or the acanthus leaf.
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While the Greeks had used the Corinthian capital with an Ionic entablature, the Romans invented a distinct cornice for the Corinthian order, characterized by large projecting modillions embellished with acanthus leaves.
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At 23 centimetres high and weighing 3,500 grams the candlesticks are highly ornamental, their tripod bases standing on scallop shell supports, centred by vacant medallions within acanthus leaf foliage on a matted ground.
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Wall tile, square, molded, black and gray, raised line decoration, geometric design including flowers, acanthus leaves, and diamonds, part of a larger design.
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Beneath an elegant cornice of acanthus-leaf scrolls, the top two floors are delineated by a stringcourse of shells, tridents, and sea creatures, and a symmetrical pattern of square and circular cartouches, the latter of which depict a majestic eagle-like bird puffing out its breast and extending its wings.
Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue
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In the form shown in Fig. 73 we find, first, a row of sixteen simple leaves, like those of a reed, with the points of a second row showing between them; then a single row of eight acanthus leaves; then the scroll-work, supporting a palmette on each side; and finally an abacus whose profile is made up of a trochilus and an ovolo.
A History of Greek Art
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The Corinthian order is also very feminine in nature, characterised primarily by its ornate capitals, which sport two rows of sculpted acanthus leaves with small volutes spiral scrolls in the corners.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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In private gardens acanthus and purple lavender grow ... but where, I wonder are the townspeople?
French Destinations
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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.
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A particularly well carved card table with a central lion's mask and fluent acanthus decoration fetched 281,690 [pounds sterling] at Bonhams on 23 November 2004.
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Its rich deep border was a riot of scrolling acanthus, shells and stylised fountains.
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One thinks of the acanthus, or bamboo, or (in Tibet), the tiger skin.
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Many wildflowers in the habitat belong to the acanthus family, including branched foldwing, Carolina scalystem, Carolina wild petunia, loose-flower water willow, and swamp twinflower.
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Other species that are sometimes associated with the Avicennia include Rhizophora apiculata and Acanthus ilicifolius, with occasional smaller patches of Rhizophora mucronata and Ceriops tagal scattered throughout.
Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
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It has been reported, based on as-yet unpublished data, that the acanthodian Diplacanthus solidus is indicative of Eifelian age.
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We took an acanthus flower from a popular Georgian wallpaper design and blew it up so large that a single flower filled an entire wall.
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DAPI-stained chromosomes of a PMC at metaphase I of the pentaploid S - 41 from the cross H. megalanthus x H. monacanthus.
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Its columns are tall and slender, its capitals have bountiful acanthus leaves with big scrolls and its entablature sports an ostentatiously sculpted frieze and cornice.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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Crab apples and viburnums are also good for wildlife, and pyracanthus (fire thorn), burning bush, and barberry provide winter food after their bitter berries have been softened by frosts.
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The star lot is a striking mid-18th century Irish mahogany side table. The later rectangular marble top sits above a plain gadrooned frieze, the deep shaped apron centred by a grotesque mask flanked by scrolling acanthus.
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There is a frog pond, a fig tree, acanthus, bamboo and cranesbill.
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Spray artichokes, cynara carduncularus, achillea, lavender, hydrangea, acanthus and eryngiums with snow, glitter or metallic paints available from DIY shops.
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IT USED TO BE that the solution for any dull spot in the garden was to pop in a big-leafed plant like an acanthus or rodgersia for contrast.
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On the south side, a large acanthus medallion sprouts amid a field of stone rosettes, as delicate as on the day they were first chiseled.
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
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Braquenié was established in the 1800s, and the breadth of the company archive is astonishing, from Victorian acanthus-leaf carpets that one associates with grand hotels to geometrics and more modern designs.
Not Your Grandma's Patterned Carpet
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But while coffers of this type are generally supported on stands with straight tapering legs, the Blenheim stands have handsome cabriole legs at both front and back, mounted at the top with acanthus volutes topped by female heads.
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Like those of the eighteenth century, these ‘flowers and leaves’ were variations on irises, carnations, roses, and acanthus.
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TAKE ROOT If you are looking to propagate perennials, those with fleshy roots such as anchusa, phlox, verbascum, oriental poppy and acanthus lend themselves to root cuttings.
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The tops of the legs are headed by weird lions' masks making a meal of acanthus leaves and the background is criss-crossed with a diaper pattern.
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Some plant species can regenerate from seemingly unpromisingly small fragments (as I know from moving an acanthus in my garden).
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According to the paper, the acanthodians have not been named yet but the chondrichthyan has been previously described as Obtusacanthus corroconis.
Wired Top Stories
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Beyond the pane, a duller gleaming, drooping green acanthus leaves, symbol once, in Christian art, of heaven, before that, classic curlicue of Greek and Roman art and architecture.
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Its rich deep border was a riot of scrolling acanthus, shells and stylised fountains.
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The only other pieces close in date to it are two composite capitals (also from the mid-10th century) in the third room, one labeled ‘Corinthian’ for some reason, although Ionic volutes are just as prominent as acanthus leaves.
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One's eye is immediately drawn to the relief decoration of alternating acanthus and palm leaves that encircles the body just above the base.
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The body of the guglet is also scattered with floral bouquets and sprays and its pouring rim is banded with acanthus scrolls.
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Jackson-Stops noted various French elements, including ‘the domed feet formed of acanthus leaves with a toe-like scroll in front, and the vertical, rather than raked, back legs of the armchairs’.
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Perhaps the most alarming decay has beset the capitals, blocks of marble carved into swirling patterns of acanthus leaves.
U-Va. Rotunda waits in line for repairs
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The acanthodian Mesacanthus shows this relationship well.
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Given the backdrop of ferns, hostas and the wooden acanthus leaves, this is an excellent way to bring back into the garden what would otherwise be a slightly shady thoroughfare.
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Along with the box - real and otherwise - are large terracotta pots of Chusan palms and acanthus, which can be moved around according to whim.
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Then our patch: some of it is paved, there is a frog pond, a fig tree, acanthus, bamboo and cranesbill.
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Acanthus scrolls of identical composition are also found on several decanters.
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Other fish found in the adjacent sandstone beds are the acanthodian Diplacanthus Agassiz, 1844, the dipnoan Fleurantia Graham-Smith and Westoll, 1937, and the sarcopterygian Eusthenopteron Whiteaves, 1881.
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The capitals of the columns, entablature, cornice, and pediment are decorated with acanthus leaves and bouquets and geometrical mouldings in high Corinthian style.
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A remarkable gracefulness in movement was created in these intricate embellishments such as the acanthus and oak leaves, volute scroll and laurelling details.
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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.
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To a topologist, the fact that the fish species Scarus sp. can be continuously transformed into the species Pomacanthus is entirely unremarkable.
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The majority of fossils recovered from the site are acanthodian fish belonging to Mesacanthus and Ischnacanthus with occasional Euthacanthus, Parexus and Climatius.
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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.
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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.
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A graceful swan-neck broken pediment crown, spiraling acanthus, tobacco leaves, all of these help to express the character of the Aristocrat collection.
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The acanthus refuses to die back and the lavatera has flowered continuously since the summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wooden body is derived from models by Piranesi, including the cabriole legs ending in rams' heads on acanthus leaves and cloven-hoof feet.
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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
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Round about her were huddled the drowsy boys; on the slopes of the steep place where she lay she could see the goats browsing on lentisk and juniper, acanthus, bramble, mountain-ash.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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Certainly the artist of the Agnus Dei might have found a different precedent for this acanthus ornament, but it is relatively unusual.
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Glazed white acanthus leaves and palmettes decorate the base of the body of the vase.
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It chanced that the basket was put down upon a young acanthus plant, and the leaves grew up about the basket in such a way that when Callimachus saw it the design for the capital which we know as Corinthian was suggested to him, and was thus named from the city in which all this had occurred.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
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The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The architrave includes a Greek key design and other symbols, and the side archivolts are decorated with acanthus leaves.
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Stern-faced caryatids with gilded wings support card tables, above legs carved as muscular lions' paws; gilded acanthus leaves curl around the pillars of center tables and sideboards.
Furniture for a Young Nation
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The architrave includes a Greek key design and other symbols, and the side archivolts are decorated with acanthus leaves.
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The jar was deposited carefully inside the tomb, built and masoned and sculpted within four days out of multicolored marbles, round in shape and supported by fluted columns crowned with the new kind of capital Sulla had brought back from Corinth and had made so popular-delicate sprays of acanthus leaves.
Fortune's Favorites
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Acanthus ilicifolius and Spartina alterniflora multiplied rapidly in the chilling injury areas of Sonneratia caseolaris plantation, and they could occupy the mudflats for a long term.
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The leaves of the acanthus are so famously handsome and glossy that their blue flower spike is almost an afterthought.
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The posts are beautifully carved with acanthus leaves and feathers, and the bed is elaborately draped with the original hangings of ribbed dimity trimmed with tassels and caught up above the frame on brass mounts.
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The tops of the legs are headed by weird lions' masks making a meal of acanthus leaves and the background is criss-crossed with a diaper pattern.
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Many wildflowers in the habitat belong to the acanthus family, including branched foldwing, Carolina scalystem, Carolina wild petunia, loose-flower water willow, and swamp twinflower.
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The cover of the round ones is in the shape of a _tholus_, a building shaped something like a beehive, the tiles being represented by acanthus leaves, and the pinnacle by a bunch of flowers.
Pagan and Christian Rome
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Think about adding hollies, laurels, camellias, castor-oil plant, sweet box, phormium, acanthus and hart's tongue fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has the same growth habits and culture requirements as a traditional acanthus — part sun/shade with rich, well-drained, soil — but the blooms are a stunning, sparkly white.
For serious plant collectors only: Acanthus mollis ‘Alba,’ white bear’s breeches « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Acanthus ilicifolius Linnaeus is widely use in folk as Mangrove, but the active components or the active parts was not clear.
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Think sedum, lavender, lychnis, verbascum, acanthus and hollyhocks, to name but a few.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arcadia: A Supernal Realm where the Ruling Arcana are Fate and Time. Mages who walk the Acanthus Path claim a Watchtower in this realm.
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Glazed white acanthus leaves and palmettes decorate the base of the body of the vase.
