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Definition of Spatulate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base.
Definition of Spatulate
1. a. Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
Definition of Spatulate
1. Adjective. Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany of leaf) Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base. ¹
3. Verb. To treat or mix with a spatula. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spatulate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Spatulate
1. 1. Shaped like a spatula. 2. To manipulate or mix with a spatula. 3. To incise the cut end of a tubular structure longitudinally and splay it open, to allow creation of an elliptical anastomosis of greater circumference than would be possible with conventional transverse or oblique (bevelled) end-to-end anastomoses. Synonym: spatulated. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spatulate
Literary usage of Spatulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Petals elliptic-spatulate, twice as long as the acute calyx-lobes .............
87. DD. The petals rounded-obovate: basal hs. more or less recurred. ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Stern herbaceous, smooth ; leaves smooth and often glaucous, obtuse ; the lowest
spatulate- obovate, .'3-5-ribbed, the upper oval or oblong, small, sessile; ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Leaves all narrow ; lower spatulate-linear, barely 3-toothed the roundish ...
the lobes and the entire upper leaves narrowly linear or slightly spatulate- . ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"linear, entire or serrate towards the apex, 1 to 1J in. long; rays tufted, erect
or ascending, 1 ft. high; leaves spatulate-oblong or above violet-purple; ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... oblong-spatulate and short-petioled ; flowers almost sessile In the axils ;
enrolla purple, about 1 cm. broad. (E. pilosus Nutt. ..."
6. A Working manual of high frequency currents by Noble Murray Eberhart (1919)
"Author's spatulate Tubes. I have recently designed the tubes shown in Pig. ...
They end in a flattened spatulate extremity. In the body tube the end is at ..."
7. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Radical leaves broader, spatulate- ovate, conspicuously 3-nerved; inner leaflets
of the involucre ..."
8. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Leaves linear-lanceolate and somewhat spatulate, half an inch or less in length,
about a line wide. Akènes 2 lines long, when mature resembling pellets of ..."
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