arcuate

American  

[ahr-kyoo-it, -eyt] / ˈɑr kyu ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

Also arcuated

adjective

1. bent or curved like a bow.

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arcuate British  

/ -ˌeɪt, ˈɑːkjuːɪt /

adjective

1. Also: arcuated.  shaped or bent like an arc or bow

   arcuate leaves

   arcuate fibres of the cerebrum

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Other Word Forms

• arcuately adverb
• subarcuate adjective
• subarcuated adjective

Etymology

Origin of arcuate

1620–30; < Latin arcuātus bent like a bow, curved (past participle of arcuāre ), equivalent to arcu-, stem of arcus bow + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The renal arteries branch out from the aorta and enter the kidney where they further divide into segmental, interlobar, arcuate, and cortical radiate arteries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Cortical radiate arteries, as the name suggests, radiate out from the arcuate arteries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The interlobar arteries split at the junction of the renal cortex and medulla to form the arcuate arteries.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Cap compact, convex or umbilicate, zoneless, minutely downy; margin reflexed, gills white, distant, arcuate; stem short, solid, pubescent; milk white, acrid, somewhat scanty.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas