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cochliate

cochliate adjective: resembling a spoon, hollow and oval.

Adjective

cochliate (comparative more cochliate, superlative most cochliate)

  1. (Of a shell or other anatomy of a marine creature) Resembling a spoon, hollow and oval.
  2. (Of a marine creature) Having a cochliate shell.

Forms of cochliate

comparativemore cochliate
superlativemost cochliate

Questions about cochliate

What does cochliate mean?
Cochliate means resembling a spoon, hollow and oval.
What part of speech is cochliate?
Cochliate is an adjective.

Words near cochliate in the dictionary

  1. cochleotoxic
  2. cochleotoxicities
  3. cochleotoxicity
  4. cochleous
  5. cochleovestibular
  6. cochliate
  7. cochlin
  8. cochlins
  9. cochliodont
  10. cochliodonts
  11. cochlospermaceous

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