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Definition of Cordate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf) shaped like a heart.
Definition of Cordate
1. a. Heart- shaped; as, a cordate leaf.
Definition of Cordate
1. Adjective. (botany) Heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cordate
1. heart-shaped [adj]
Medical Definition of Cordate
1.
With a sinus and rounded lobes at the base, the overall outline usually ovate, often restricted to the base rather than to the outline of the entire organ, heart-shaped.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordate
Literary usage of Cordate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"74) : the great expanded cordate-ovate limb several inches across, ... Masters Lvs.
ovate and cordate : fls. cream-colored with purple markings, ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"nodes much enlarged, leaves petioled thinly coriaceous broadly elliptic or rounded
abruptly acuminate, 5-nerved from near the rounded rarely sub- cordate ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... styles a line long ; capsule cordate-ovate, '2 lines long, the very abruptly
acute cells usually separating and then dehiscing ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Plant rather thick- and soft- stemmed, the branches becoming several feet long,
white-hairy all over: Ivs. very long - stalked, very broadly cordate - ovate ..."
5. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"hairs, not so matted as in the former species. Radical leaves sometimes 1
ft., ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, often cordate, petioled, ..."
6. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"Lvs. smooth, orbicular-ovate, cordate, with the sinus closed ; petiole ... Lvs.
cordate, roundish, slightly pubescent; petiole pubescent ; U petals ..."
7. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1866)
"... and the root-leaves distinctly and abruptly stalked, often cordate ; the
flowers smaller, and the stamens with purple hairs. From V. nigrum it differs ..."
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