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adj
Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.
Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.
verb
To beat into shape with a hammer.
Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.