Cochlea

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A spiral-shaped cavity of the inner ear that resembles a snail shell and contains nerve endings essential for hearing.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See ear.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A winding staircase.
  • n. In anatomy, a part of the inner ear in most vertebrated animals.
  • n. In botany, a closely coiled legume.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tube    tube-shaped structure   
    Cross Reference
    aquæductus cochleæ   
    Variant
    cochleae    ear   
    Form
    cochlear   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    outpouring    ovulum    flatfish    justo    thirty-five-year-old   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.