Definition of cochleate in US English:
 cochleate
(also cochleated)
adjective ˈkäklēitˈkäklēit
Botany Formed like a spiral shell; twisted.
 Example sentencesExamples
-  Some two-long alkyl chain amphiphiles can adopt stable tubular structures including twist ribbons, helices, and cochleate cylinders in aqueous media.
 -  He indicated that before forming a new phragmocone chamber, the cochleate cephalopod detaches the muscles from the conch and moves forward.
 -  The calyx lobes overlap in a cochleate pattern such that lobe initiated third was innermost, overlapped by the fourth, then the fifth, the second, and lastly the first, which was always outermost.
 -  This kind of musculature was probably already developed in the cochleate ammonoids.
 -  They carried out the pelagic and stationary modes of breeding as the cochleate ammonoids.