Arcuate

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    curved into the shape of a bow.

    "arcuate stalks"

Adjective
  1. 1
    forming or resembling an arch wordnet

Synonyms

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arcedarchedarchingarciformarciformarquated

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From Latin arcuātus.

Related phrases

arcuate fasciculus

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