coarctate
Meanings
adj
- Pressed close together, constricted, narrowed, compressed.
- (of the pupa of certain flies) Enclosed in a rigid case formed by the larval cuticle or puparium.
verb
- To press together; to crowd.
- To restrain; to confine.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coarctātus, perfect participle of coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”), from co- (“being or bringing together, co-”) + arctō (“to draw or press close together”).
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