See Also: multicuspid(medicine)
multicuspid tooth(medicine)

Churrigueresque (sh) and multicuspid (medicine)


Churrigueresque (sh)




Spanish Rococo architectural style named after the architect Jose Churriguera (1665-1725).

Visually frenetic, it featured a plethora of extravagant ornament and surfaces bristling with broken pediments, undulating cornices, spirals, balustrades, stucco shells, and garlands. In Spanish America, tendencies from both Native American and Mudejar (Spanish-Moorish) Art were incorporated, and the Churrigueresque column, an inverted cone, became the most common motif.


multicuspid (medicine)


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multicuspidate


1. Having more than two cusps.

2. A molar tooth with three or more cusps or projections on the crown.

Synonym: multicuspid.