sulcate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sulcātus, perfect passive participle of sulcō (“I plough, furrow”).
Adjective
[edit]sulcate (comparative more sulcate, superlative most sulcate)
- Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14:
- The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “sulcate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]sulcāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]sulcate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of sulcar combined with te