cacuminous

Etymology
(the stem of the ) +

Adjective

 * 1)  Having a pyramidal top.
 * Cleopatra’s Needles are three cacuminous monoliths first erected in Ancient Egypt over a thousand years before the birth of Christ.
 * 1) * 1597: John Hoskyns’ “A Tuftafffeta Speech”, printed in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour, and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566–1638 (published by the Yale University Press)
 * [A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]
 * 1) * 1834: James Atkinson, Medical Bibliography, s.v. “Acerbi Joseph”, page 165
 * Equally so as it ha been in his own, over the estuous rivers of Lapland, or its frozen and cacuminous mountains;
 * 1) * ante 1879: Mortimer Collins, Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand, volume 1, page 248
 * Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.
 * Luminous books (not voluminous) To read under beech-trees cacuminous.

Translations

 * Spanish: con cima piramidal, piramidal