Definition of Tesselate

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of tessellate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tesselate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tesselate

terzetta
terzettas
terzetti
terzetto
terzettos
tes
teschemacherite
tesetaxel
tesh
teshuva
tesla
teslas
tesofensine
tessara-
tesselar
tesselate (current term)
tesselated
tesselates
tesselating
tesselation
tessella
tessellae
tessellata
tessellate
tessellated
tessellated fundus
tessellates
tessellating
tessellation
tessellations

Literary usage of Tesselate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"These channels, since their discovery by Mr. Rofe, have been shown to be generally present in the tesselate Crinoids. The superior channels, on the ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1909)
"... skeleton tesselate, arranged in regular longitudinal and transverse series. Primary apical plates persistent and distinct in the adult. ..."

3. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"1. montana. L. linear, acute; lowest opposite or in threes. Floral L. 2, opposite, dis- taut from the others. Fl. usually solitary. Pet. tesselate ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"In 1865 Mr J. Bofe demonstrated (Geol. Mag., ii. 245) in the case of •*»• ral genera of tesselate Crinoids from the Mountain lia* stone ..."

5. Principles of Human Physiology: With Their Chief Applications to Pathology by William Benjamin Carpenter, Meredith Clymer (1845)
"In all these situations it is continuous with the tesselate epithelium; the latter lines the more delicate canals of the various glands. ..."

6. The American Drawing Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for by John Gadsby Chapman (1858)
"It is easier to tesselate a pavement and define every inch of it than to tesselate the traceless ocean, and yet do objects floating on its calm or disturbed ..."

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