torus

torus is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
2. noun. One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
3. noun. The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
4. noun. See 3d Tore, 2.
5. noun. commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column

   Synonyms: tore

6. noun. a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle

   Synonyms: toroid

Synonyms

tore, toroid

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in torus:

roust, routs, rusot, stour, sutor, tours

Common word forms

toru, toruses

Words from these letters

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