cochleary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See cochlear.
Adjective
[edit]cochleary (not comparable)
- (obsolete) spiral-shaped
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- wreathy spires, […] and cochleary turnings about
- 1704, Henry Power, Athenæ Redivivæ:
- She hath also fitted it with that spiral or cochleary contrivance […]