This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is corniculate or corniculated: shaped like a small horn; from the Latin, corniculum, “little horn”, dim. of cornu.
In botany, a flower with a sharp-pointed appendage, resembling, in some degree, a cock’s spur.
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