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Definition of Galeate
1. a. Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.
Definition of Galeate
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a galea. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Helmet-shaped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Galeate
1. galea [adj] - See also: galea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galeate
Literary usage of Galeate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1848)
"the upper galeate lip is of a deep crimson colour, and the palate of the opposite
lip seems of a roseate tinge, judging at least from ..."
2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Anther galeate, keeled. Glándula retuse or crescent-shaped. Materials : — Two
flowers out of M. Linden's garden ; our sketch, taken from these ; description ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Corolla manifestly bilabiate; the upper lip erect and or galeate, entire or
emarginate, rarely 2-cleft; the lower 3-cleft, mostly ig, external in the bud. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Same as galeate: as, ... Helmet-shaped: as, a galeate echinus; the galeate upper
sepal of the monk's-hood. gale-beer ..."
5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Corolla bright deep purple, pubescent, the galeate upper lip nearly entire,
clothed with a purple villus; ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Corolla bilabiate ; upper lip galeate, or flat, entire, ... Corolla bright deep
purple, pubescent, the galeate upper lip nearly entire, clothed with a ..."
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