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Definition of Subulate
1. a. Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
Definition of Subulate
1. Adjective. (biology) Awl-shaped; tapering into a sharp point from a broader base. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subulate
1. slender and tapering to a point [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subulate
Literary usage of Subulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Plants densely and widely cespitose: leaves soft, spreading or slightly secund,
crispate when dry, lanceolate-subulate, concave, serrulate, ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... lucre« pubescent, armed with 7 or 8 stout-subulate and widely spreading straight
... of linear-subulate bracts, not surpassing the disk : rays an inch ! ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Peduncles 2-3 in. ; flowers distant, pedicel as long as the calyx, hairy ; bracts
minute, subulate. Flowers J in. ; standard crimson, keel and wings paler. ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Pod silky, subulate, 20-seeded. Described from DC. and Hange loe. cit.—No specimen
seen. head, wings shorter than the bcel, calyx clothed with adpressed ..."
5. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... lower one longer, lanceolate, keeled; lateral segments, or bracts very minute,
subulate. Corolla purplish blue, with shades of dark violet ..."
6. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"reduced to herbaceous bracts; heads in fruit % in. high; main involucral bracts
11 to 15, linear or lanceolate-acuminate, and with some loose subulate ones ..."
7. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"stem creeping, with ascending branches; leaves scattered, numerous, subulate-linear,
incurved and hair-pointed; spikes mostly in pairs, cylindric, ..."
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