Coarctate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  enclosed \enclosed\ adj.
     surrounded or closed in, usually on all sides. Opposite of
     {unenclosed}. [Narrower terms: {basined}; {capsulate,
     capsulated}; {closed, closed in(predicate)}; {coarctate};
     {confined, fenced in, penned}; {embedded, fixed}; {embedded,
     surrounded}; {encircled}; {enveloped}; {fogbound};


     {self-enclosed}; {surrounded, encircled}]
     [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coarct \Co*arct"\, Coarctate \Co*arc"tate\, v. t. [See
     {Coarctate}, a.]
     1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine
        closely. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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     2. To restrain; to confine. [Obs.] --Ayliffe.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coarctate \Co*arc"tate\, a. [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.
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     {Coarctate pupa} (Zool.), a pupa closely covered by the old
        larval skin, as in most Diptera.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coarctate
       adj : (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case