Meaning & use
Corniculate
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Having small horn-shaped processes or projections; bearing a hornlike structure.
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The corniculate cartilages sit atop the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx.
Botanists described the corniculate seed pods of the unusual desert plant.
A note on using this word
The term is most familiar from anatomy, describing the small corniculate cartilages of the human voice box.
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hornedhornlike
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