sulcus
English
/ˈsʌl.kəs/
noun
Definitions
- (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue.
- (anatomy) Any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain.
- (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sulcus (furrow, ditch, wrinkle, groove, forrow, track).
Origin
Latin
sulcus
Gloss
furrow, ditch, wrinkle, groove, forrow, track
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pseudosulcus English
- sulcification English
- Sulcius Latin
- sulcicollis Latin
- sulcifrons Latin
- sulcirostris Latin
- sulco Latin
- sulcus Latin
- solco Italian
- surco Spanish, Castilian
- *solk-o- Proto-Indo-European
- sulco Portuguese
- solc Catalan, Valencian
- suco Galician
- sulc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- solç Friulian