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Definition of Calcarate
1. a. Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
Definition of Calcarate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcarate
Literary usage of Calcarate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1837)
"peduncles solitary, 2-4-flowered ; leaves rhombic-ovate ; mucronate-dentate ;
calcarate petal longer than the rest ; flowers with crowded spots. balsami'na, ..."
2. Flora Indica, Or, Descriptions of Indian Plants by William Roxburgh (1832)
"Authers two on each filament, all with a calcarate base. Germ oblong, sitting in a
... Lower anthers calcarate. Vada-Kodi. Rheed. Mai. 9. p. 79. t. 42. ..."
3. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"Corolla tubular, rather irregular, with the border 5-parted, inserted on the top
of the ovary, slightly calcarate at the base. Stamens 1—5, but usually 3. ..."
4. Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of All the More Important Plants Used in by John Lindley (1838)
"Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 63. • VIOLA. Sepals 5, unequal, prolonged into appendages
at the base. Corolla unequal, 2-lipped, of 5 petals, the lower calcarate. ..."
5. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1853)
"peduncles aggregate, 1-flowered; leaves lanceolate, upper once alternate ;
calcarate petal (or nectar}'} shorter than the other petals. Of various colors. ..."
6. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1849)
"There was, however, this difference between them, that whereas the calcarate
plants of the order are contented, with Butler's ..."
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