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sulcate

sulcate adjective: having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.

Adjective

sulcate (comparative more sulcate, superlative most sulcate)

  1. Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
    • The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14

Forms of sulcate

comparativemore sulcate
superlativemost sulcate

Origin of sulcate

From Latin sulcātus, perfect passive participle of sulcō (“to plough, furrow”).

Words formed from sulcate

Questions about sulcate

What does sulcate mean?
Sulcate means having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
What part of speech is sulcate?
Sulcate is an adjective.

Words near sulcate in the dictionary

  1. sulbutiamine
  2. Sulby
  3. sulcal
  4. sulcalization
  5. sulcalizations
  6. sulcate
  7. sulcated
  8. sulcately
  9. sulcation
  10. sulcations
  11. sulcatol

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