| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| coarctate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | co·arc·tate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k -ärk t t |
| ADJECTIVE: | Zoology 1. Enclosed in an oval horny case. Used of an insect pupa. 2. Constricted, narrowed, or compressed, as a segment of a blood vessel. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin coarcttus, past participle of coarctre, to compress, alteration of coartre : co-, co- + artre, to compress (from artus, tight, confined; see ar- in Appendix I).
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