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cochleary

cochleary adjective: spiral-shaped.

Adjective

cochleary (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) spiral-shaped
    • wreathy spires, […]and cochleary turnings about1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • She hath also fitted it with that spiral or cochleary contrivance […]1704, Henry Power, Athenæ Redivivæ

Origin of cochleary

See cochlear.

Questions about cochleary

What does cochleary mean?
Cochleary means spiral-shaped.
What part of speech is cochleary?
Cochleary is an adjective.

Words near cochleary in the dictionary

  1. cochleares
  2. cochlearia
  3. cochleariform
  4. cochlearium
  5. cochlearly
  6. cochleary
  7. cochleas
  8. cochleate
  9. cochleated
  10. cochleately
  11. cochleates

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