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单词 cornicle
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corniclen.

/ˈkɔːnɪk(ə)l/
Etymology: < Latin corniculum, diminutive of cornū horn.
A little horn (obsolete); a small hornlike organ or process, as the ‘horns’ of a snail, the antennæ of an insect.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 155 [In snails] there will be found on either side two black..membranous strings, which extend into the long and shorter cornicle upon protrusion.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 924 Having two cornicles or little short horns.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1003 The cornicles long and black, the wings coming forth of the middle of the loins.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 843/1 Minute cornicles sometimes attached to the pubis.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 176/2 In Poupart's ligament..cornicles..are said to have been found in the human subject.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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