| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| cyma reversa |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cyma re·ver·sa |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -vûr s |
| NOUN: | A cyma in which the upper section is convex and the lower section concave. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin c ma reversa : cma, cyma + Latin reversa, feminine of reversus, turned back.
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