Resembling or relating to a snail or snail shell; spiral or helical in form.
From Latin cochlea (snail shell) with the adjectival suffix -ous, creating an archaic or rare descriptor meaning 'having snail-like qualities.'
Cochleous is an older adjective that modern scientists have mostly replaced with cochlear or cochleate, but it still appears in historical scientific papers and preserved taxonomic names of ancient creatures.
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