sulcate
adjEtymology From Latin sulcātus, perfect passive participle of sulcō (“to plough, furrow”).
1
Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
- The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14:
- Derived terms
- bisulcate, monosulcate, multisulcate, nonsulcate, polysulcate, quadrisulcate, subsulcate, sulcated, sulcately, trisulcate, unisulcate