Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, fixed as if anchored.
- As applied to the spicules of the sponges, having a pronged anchor-shaped arrangement at one or both ends, especially in the monactinellids.
- An anchorate spicule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Anchor-shaped.
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The HMS Royal Oak was sunk at its anchorate in Scapa Flow.
Belmont Club 2010
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