malleate

adjective

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.ɪt/, /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

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verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

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First attested in 1884; from malleus +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • 2009, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, editors, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition, page 181:

     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.
   • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, “A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 40, page 313:

     The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

First attested in 1598; borrowed from Medieval Latin malleātus, perfect passive participle of malleō (“to beat with a hammer”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer. [from 1598]
   • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12:

     Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

• “malleate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “malleate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “malleate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

malleāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of malleō