coarctate

4 definitions found

coarctate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]
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  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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  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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coarctate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  coarctate
      adj 1: (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case