Noun: cochlea
| Singular | cochlea |
| Plural | cochleae; cochleas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cochlea
serosa,
situla,
ecclesia,
synapticula,
condensed formula,
melopoeia,
pfennig,
failed supernova,
subcosta,
mycoflora,
zonula,
noctiluca,
anurofauna,
veillonella,
dalmatica,
bosenova,
ectomycorrhiza,
microfauna,
lymphoglandula,
un-nova, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”). See: Latin Nouns '
cochlea'.