Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In certain algæ, as Vaucheria, the young antheridium, which resembles in shape a small horn.
- noun Plural of
corniculum .
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Examples
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That arch on each side which is connected with the skull and is placed immediately in front of the branchial arches, continues to be so connected and becomes one of the two "cornicula," while the rudimentary relics of the branchial arches which persist become what we have seen in the adult as the cornua of the os hyoides.
The Common Frog 1874
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM. 2008
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Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit.
Sigh. WMAM. 2008
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Sunt aut illi quadrigemina cornicula quorum ostentatione, ueluti esca illiciens sollicitat et animalia perimit.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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In the interior of the larynx there were no projections nor ventricles, no cuneiform cartilages, nor cornicula laryngis.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Adamnan, after Columba himself the brightest ornament of the School of Iona, in his "Life" of the founder, makes explicit references to the tabulae, waxen tablets for writing; to the pens and styles, graphia and calami, and to the ink-horn, cornicula atramenti, to be found in the scriptorium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The cartilages are the (1) epiglottis, (2) thyroid, cricoid, arytenoid, the two small, unimportant cornicula laryngis, or cartilages of
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Wesley Mills 1881
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Thus the cornicula may be large and may each be represented by two or three distinct applications as in the dog and horse.
The Common Frog 1874
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Origaim fylocftre Papauer cornicula - iliidcm lum J4S.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libri sex 1554
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