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Definition of Cochleate
1. a. Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.
Definition of Cochleate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cochleate
1. Coiled like a snail-shell. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cochleate
Literary usage of Cochleate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... legume smooth, cochleate: stipules entire: leaves oblong, toothed. ...
peduncles about 2-flowered: legumes unarmed, cochleate in an orbicular form, ..."
2. Flora Hongkongensis: A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the by George. Bentham (1861)
"Seeds usually numerous and small, straight or cochleate (ie curved something like a
... Fruit more or less succulent, opening irregularly. Seeds cochleate. ..."
3. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1852)
"Applied to any shell or part which is hollow and oval, as Patellae, &c. The cavity
containing the cartilage in Mya, fig. 71, is cochleate. ..."
4. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Seeds cochleate, minute. Anthers equal; fruit a herry . ... Seeds minute, never
cochleate. O Calyx terete and smooth, ..."
5. A Manual of determinative bacteriology by Frederick Dixon Chester (1901)
"I. Gelatin colonies typical of the group, ie ameboid — cochleate. A. Agar smear
cultures smooth. 1. Potato cultures white, gray-yellowish, not distinctly ..."
6. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1912)
"... the " cochleate " uterus of Pozzi is the commonest cause of sterility, and is
the most hopeful as regards treatment. The uterus is felt to be unusually ..."
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