Noun: extrados
| Singular | extrados |
| Plural | extradoses; extrados |
Sample Sentences
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The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches. [1954 January, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:]
Nouns inflected like extrados
gallowglass,
secesh,
icefish,
ghostfish,
neon fish,
New English,
combfish,
zebrafish,
walking catfish,
rose fish,
granofels,
elephant trunkfish,
medusafish,
Mississippi catfish,
boxfish,
weeverfish,
greenfish,
stone fish,
stone-fish,
bannerfish, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French extradossé (“outer curve”) from Latin extra (“outside”) + dos (“back”) (from Latin dorsum). See: Latin Nouns '
extra', Latin Nouns '
dorsum'.