cŏclĕar
āris, n.
coclea, of the form of a snail-shell
I.
a spoon, Mart. l. l.; Cels. 6, 14; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19; Petr. 33, 6 al.—As a measure for liquids, esp. in medicine, a spoonful, = half a cheme or 1/144 of a cotyla, Rhem. Fann. Pond.; Col. 12, 21, 3; Plin. 23, 4, 38, § 76; 27, 4, 5, § 17, and the above passages with coclearium.