a. [f. L. coc(h)leāri- spoon + -FORM. Cf. F. cochléariforme.] Spoon-shaped.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 544/1. This tubular projection … is what has been called the cochleariform process.
1848. Dana, Zooph., 432.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 321. Palps dilated at apex, cochleariform.
