malleate

Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.2009, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, editors, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition, page 181
2. Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, “A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 40, page 313

Verb

UK/ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12