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