cochleary

English

Etymology

See cochlear.

Adjective

cochleary (not comparable)

  1. (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 […]
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