The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corniculum \Cor*nic"u*lum\ (k?r-n?k"?-l?m), n.; pl. Cornicula (-l?). [L. corniculum little horn.] (Anat.) A small hornlike part or process.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) A small horn-like part or process.
Wikipedia
Corniculum was an ancient town in Latium in central Italy.
In Rome's early semi-legendary history, the town was part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome during the reign of Rome's king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. Corniculum was one of a number of towns captured by Tarquinius.
Livy also records that one of the leading men of Corniculum, named Servius Tullius, was slain in the capture of the town, and that his pregnant wife was taken captive to Rome, but was exempted from slavery by the Roman queen Tanaquil on account of her rank, and was given a place in the king's household. She gave birth to a son, Servius Tullius, who later married Tarqunius' daughter, and succeeded him as king of Rome.
Usage examples of "corniculum".
The brood mind grew a corniculum automatically, though the toughened outer membrane would be of little help if the seedship was breached.
I am rather of the opinion of those who say that, on the taking of Corniculum, the wife of Servius Tullius, who had been the leading man in that city, being pregnant when her husband was slain, being known among the other female prisoners, and, in consequence of her high rank, exempted from servitude by the Roman queen, was delivered of a child at Rome, in the house of Tarquinius Priscus.
Servius Tullius, the son of a captive woman of Corniculum, with his father unknown, his mother a slave, attained the throne by his ability and merit?