Cochleate

  • 21whorled — Synonyms and related words: ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering,… …

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  • 22spiral — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. coiled, winding, helical, turbinate, cochlear. See convolution. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. winding, circling, cochlear, coiled, helical, whorled, radial, screw shaped, circumvoluted, curled, rolled …

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  • 23cochleary — a. Cochleate, cochleated, cochlean, cochleariform, cochleous, spiral, spiry, screw shaped …

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  • 24cochleated — a. See cochleate …

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  • 25spiral — n 1. helix, volute, gyre, spire; coil, curl, curlicue, ringlet, corkscrew, whorl. adj 2. helical, volute, coiled, corkscrew, turbinate, turbinal, cochleate. v 3. wind, twist, twine, twist and turn, sinuate; swirl, sworl, whirl; wreathe. 4.(all of …

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  • 26cochlea —   n. (pl. leae ) spirally coiled part of ear.    ♦ cochlear, a. pertaining to the cochlea; spirally shaped.    ♦ cochleate, a. like a screw or snail s shell …

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  • 27cochleiform — (ˈ)kōk.|lēəˌfȯrm, (ˈ)kä adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary cochlea (from Latin) + iform : cochleate * * * cochleiform, a. (kɒˈkliːɪfɔːm) [f. L. coc( …

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  • 28cochleated — adjective see cochleate …

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