† cochlearyadj.
Obsolete.
Resembling a snail-shell, spiral, winding.
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spiral1556
whelkeda1560
screwish1570
helical1613
screwed1615
cochleary1646
cochleous1694
helicoid1704
cochleateda1728
cochleate1835
helicoidal1864
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiii. 167 That famous [horn]..hath anfractuous spires, and cochleary turnings about it. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 194 Cocleary turnings.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 8 Nature hath fitted it [Butterfly's tongue] with that spiral or cochleary contrivance.
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