a. [ad. L. coc(h)leāt-us screw-formed, spiral, f. coc(h)lea.] Formed like a spiral shell; twisted, spiral. (Chiefly Bot.)
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 348. Cochleate…; twisted in a short spire, so as to resemble the convolutions of a snail-shell.
1859. C. Dresser, Rudim. Bot., 382. Cochleate legume … when the legume is twisted. Ex. Lucerne.
