cochleary

adj

cochleary

adj

Etymology See cochlear.

1

Obsolete spiral-shaped

wreathy spires, […]and cochleary turnings about1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
She hath also fitted it with that spiral or cochleary contrivance […]1704, Henry Power, Athenæ Redivivæ:

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