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adj
Pressed close together, constricted, narrowed, compressed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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adj
(of the pupa of certain flies) Enclosed in a rigid case formed by the larval cuticle or puparium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences
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verb
To press together; to crowd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To restrain; to confine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adjective satellite
(of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
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”).
From the above adjective, for more see etymology at -ate.
