Etymology

pulvinate

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Today it means: Curved convexly or swelled. Full definition →

Latin pulvinatus
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  1. Latin · derived frompulvinatus
  2. English todaypulvinate

From Latin pulvinatus, from pulvinus (“a cushion, an elevation”).

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