Definitions for cornicles

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cornicles cor·ni·cle

Spelling: [kawr-ni-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈkɔr nɪ kəl/

Cornicles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 498 anagrams from letters in cornicles (cceilnors).

Definitions for cornicles

noun

1. any of various small, horn-shaped processes, especially one of a pair of tubes at the posterior end of the abdomen of aphids, from which a waxy fluid is emitted.

Origin of cornicles

1640-50; Latin corniculum little horn, equivalent to corn- (stem of cornū) horn + -i- -i- + -culum -cle¹