Unscramble

c 3 o 1 c 3 h 4 l 1 e 1 a 1

7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti

originBorrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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