sulcate

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adjective

Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.

OriginLatin sulcātus →
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Meanings

adjectivesulcate (comparative more sulcate, superlative most sulcate)

comparative more sulcate · superlative most sulcate

  1. Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows.

    The infant's ossature, the thin and brindled bones along whose sulcate facets clove old shreds of flesh and cerements of tattered swaddle.

    1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 14

Origin

  1. Latinsulcātus
  2. Englishsulcate

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

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APA

sulcate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sulcate

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“sulcate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sulcate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sulcate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sulcate.

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