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torus
1: a large molding of convex profile commonly occurring as the lowest molding in the base of a column2: the thickening of a membrane closing a wood-cell pit (as of gymnosperm tracheids) having the secondary cell wall arched over the pit cavity3: a doughnut-shaped surface generated by a circle rotated about an axis in its plane that does not intersect the circle
; broadly : toroid4: a smooth rounded anatomical protuberance (as a bony ridge on the skull)
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