sulcate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin sulcātus, perfect passive participle of sulcō (“I plough, furrow”).

Adjective[edit]

sulcate (comparative more sulcate, superlative most sulcate)

  1. Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14:
      The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.

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Verb[edit]

sulcāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of sulcō

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sulcate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of sulcar combined with te
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