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 […]