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Definition of Angulate
1. Verb. Make or become angular.
2. Adjective. Having angles or an angular shape.
Also: Pointed, Square
Similar to: Angled, Asteroid, Star-shaped, Bicuspid, Bicuspidate, Cuspate, Cuspated, Cusped, Cuspidal, Cuspidate, Cuspidated, Equiangular, Isogonic, Rectangular, Sharp-angled, Sharp-cornered, Square-shaped, Three-cornered, Triangular, Tricuspid, Tricuspidate, Unicuspid
Derivative terms: Angle, Angularity, Angularity, Angle
Antonyms: Rounded
Definition of Angulate
1. a. Having angles or corners; angled; as, angulate leaves.
2. v. t. To make angular.
Definition of Angulate
1. Adjective. Shaped with corners or angles. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany zoology) The shape of stems, leaves and wings. ¹
3. Verb. To make, or to become, angular ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Angulate
1. to make angular [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: angular
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angulate
Literary usage of Angulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Sterne elongate, scabrous, from a thickish fusiform root ; leaves ovate, the
margin somewhat angulate, denticulate, densely scabrous-pubescent, ..."
2. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History) by George Albert Boulenger (1894)
"Body elongate, cylindrical or feebly compressed ; scales smooth or keeled, with
apical pits, in 15 to 35 rows ; ventrals rounded or angulate laterally. ..."
3. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... obtuse or angulate, the middle ones ligulate, bluntly acute, with a thicker disk.
A ligulate blunt depressed well-marked callus stands between the ..."
4. Guide to the Genera and Classification of the North American Orthoptera by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1897)
"Median carina of the pronotum cut in the middle; posterior margin of the pronotum
plainly more angulate than the anterior. ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"Fastigium of vertex more sharply angulate and more prominent, in the male advanced
beyond the eyes by half or nearly half the length of the eye as seen from ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1897)
"Hind margin of pronotum distinctly though obtusely angulate; interspace between
... Posterior margin of pronotum obtusely angulate or rounded truncate, ..."
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