Usually means: Spiral-shaped organ for hearing.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word cochlea:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cochlea: Merriam-Webster
  2. cochlea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cochlea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cochlea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cochlea: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cochlea, cochlea: Wordnik
  7. cochlea: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cochlea: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. cochlea: Wiktionary
  10. cochlea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. cochlea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. cochlea: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. cochlea: Dictionary.com
  14. cochlea: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Cochlea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cochlea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cochlea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cochlea: Rhymezone
  19. Cochlea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cochlea: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cochlea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cochlea: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cochlea: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cochlea: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cochlea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. cochlea: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cochlea: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cochlea: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Cochlea: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. cochlea: Medical dictionary
  12. Cochlea: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cochlea: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COCHLEA: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See cochleae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
noun:  A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.

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