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Definition of Shield-shaped
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shield-shaped
Literary usage of Shield-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"Supra-anal plate trigono-shield-shaped, with a minute dorsal tubercle ...
Supra-anal plate elongate shield-shaped, lateral margins cingulate, straight and ..."
2. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1859)
"104 represents the shield-shaped leaf of a Water-Pennywort. Fig. 103 is the leaf
of another species, which is not shield-shaped. ..."
3. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1859)
"104 represents the shield-shaped leaf of a Water-Pennywort. Fig. 103 is the leaf
of another species, which is not shield-shaped. ..."
4. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"Halberd-shaped, or Hastate; when such lobes point outwards, giving the whole
blade the shape of the halberd of the olden time, as in Fig. 102. shield-shaped ..."
5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Cone woody; the shield-shaped scales closed without overlapping, ... Cones oblong
or globular, the scales not shield-shaped but concave and fixed bv their ..."
6. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Sterile catkins composed of shield-shaped scale-like filaments bearing 2-4 ...
Fertile catkins globular, of shield-shaped scales bearing several erect ..."
7. 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)
"Sterile flowers composed of shield-shaped scale-like filaments bearing 2-4 ...
Fertile catkins globular, of shield-shaped scales decussate in pairs, ..."
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