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 cochleate: shaped like a snail shell, spiral, from the Latin cochleatus.

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 cochleariform: spoon-shaped, from the Latin cochlearis.