Definition of Spathulate
1. a. See Spatulate.
Definition of Spathulate
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of spatulate) ¹
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Definition of Spathulate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Spathulate
1. Spoon-shaped, broad at the tip and narrowed towards the base. (09 Oct 1997)
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Literary usage of Spathulate
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1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Leaves sub-coriaceous, very smooth and lucid, those of the root spathulate ovate,
obtuse, those of the stem not acuminate. ..."
2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"next four are oblong-spathulate, irregularly dentate ; and the rest mostly ...
Those of S. elegans are narrowly spathulate and more like the ..."
3. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1869)
"Bracts oblanceolate- spathulate, the lower ones longer than the pedicels.
Pedicels ascending, the lower ones bracteolate, three-eighths to half an inch long ..."
4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"Petals spathulate, the lamina den tato-serrate, concave, closely reflexed, pale
yellowish-while. Stamens opposite the petals, erect or nearly so, ..."
5. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... petals minute linear or spathulate ; style filiform, 2-4-cleft, the branches
recurved. Drupes 2-3-celled ; seeds grooved, groove narrow, nearly closed. ..."
6. The London Journal of Botany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of by William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"71 • But that is thrice as large in all its parts, and the leaves are spathulate
and serrated, quite unlike those of the present plant, which I have only ..."
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