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Definition of Cotyles
1. cotyle [n] - See also: cotyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotyles
Literary usage of Cotyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A large group of worms, of uncertain extent : so called from the possession of
suckers or cotyles. ... Furnished with cotyles. — 2. ..."
2. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"11, —Atlas of Wolf, anterior end and it the necessary degree of mo- left side,
col., anterior cotyles. nc, , ... , ' . neural canal. no, ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"... and two cotyles of wine, and a piece of flesh ; and to every of their servants,
half that quantity: that they should send this the Athenians looking on; ..."