concamerate

English

Etymology

From Latin concameratus, past participle of concamerare (“to arch over”). See camber.

Verb

concamerate (third-person singular simple present concamerates, present participle concamerating, simple past and past participle concamerated)

  1. To arch over; to vault.
    Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. — Grew.
  2. To divide into chambers or cells.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for concamerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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