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Webster 1913 Edition

Coarctate

{

Co-arct′

,

Co-arc′tate

}
,
Verb.
T.
[See
Coarctate
,
Adj.
]
1.
To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
To restrain; to confine.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.

Co-arc′tate

,
Adj.
[L.
coarctatus
, p. p. of
coarctare
to press together;
co-
+
arctare
to press together, from
arctus
, p. p. See
Arctation
.]
(Zool.)
Pressed together; closely connected; – applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.
Coarctate pupa
(Zool.)
,
a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.

Definition 2025

coarctate

coarctate

English

Adjective

coarctate ‎(comparative more coarctate, superlative most coarctate)

  1. (anatomy) constricted, narrowed or compressed
  2. (entomology, of a pupa) enclosed in a rigid case

Verb

coarctate ‎(third-person singular simple present coarctates, present participle coarctating, simple past and past participle coarctated)

  1. (obsolete) To press together; to crowd.
  2. (obsolete) To restrain; to confine.

Related terms

Latin

Verb

coarctāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of coarctō

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