malleate
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Is malleate a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of malleate?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.Examples: "Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane."
2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.Examples: "The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads."
verb (English)
1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.Examples: "Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary