arcuate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.24 in modern English

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adj

curved into the shape of a bow.

"arcuate stalks"
"The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other."

From Latin arcuātus.

more arcuate (comparative) most arcuate (superlative)

arcuately biarcuate periarcuate postarcuate subarcuate

arcuate fasciculus

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