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cornuate

cornuate adjective: horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.

Adjective

cornuate (comparative more cornuate, superlative most cornuate)

  1. Horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.
    • […] that in the higher apes, Troglodytes, Pithecus, the posterior cavity of the tricornate ventricle becomes of larger dimensions than in Cercopithecus, although far inferior in size and diverse in shape, from the much deeper, and more incurved cornuate bay which forms the digital cavity of man.1863, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature”, in The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 117, page 557
    • Five species of cornuate osteostracans have been discovered at Devils Hole, and a further three or four species are probably represented by indeterminate fragmentary material.1999, David L. Dineley, Fossil fishes of Great Britain, page 121

Forms of cornuate

comparativemore cornuate
superlativemost cornuate

Origin of cornuate

From Latin cornuātus (“horn-shaped”), from cornū (“horn”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from cornuate

Questions about cornuate

What does cornuate mean?
Cornuate means horn-shaped, as with a bicornuate uterus.
What part of speech is cornuate?
Cornuate is an adjective.

Words near cornuate in the dictionary

  1. Cornu Luncii
  2. Cornu spiral
  3. cornua
  4. cornua ammonis
  5. cornual
  6. cornuate
  7. cornuated
  8. Cornubia
  9. Cornubian
  10. cornubianite
  11. cornubianites

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