cornicle

[ kawr-ni-kuhl ]

noun

1. any of various small, horn-shaped processes, especially one of a pair of tubes at the posterior end of the abdomen of aphids, from which a waxy fluid is emitted.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cornicle¹

1640–50; < Latin corniculum little horn, equivalent to corn- (stem of cornū ) horn + -i- -i- + -culum -cle ¹