concamerate

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/kənˈkæməɹeɪt/

verb

To arch over; to vault.

OriginLatin concameratus →
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Meanings

verbconcamerate (third-person singular simple present concamerates, present participle concamerating, simple past and past participle concamerated)

present singular third person concamerates · participle present concamerating · participle past concamerated · past concamerated

  1. To arch over; to vault.

    Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone.

    1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC
  2. To divide into chambers or cells.

    Of those which have the top formed into a kind of rostrum and crooked , and are not concamerated within

    1752, John Hill, An History of Animals […]

Origin

  1. Latinconcameratus
  2. Englishconcamerate

From Latin concameratus, past participle of concamero (“to arch over”), from con- + camera (“chamber, vault”). See camber.

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