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Definition of Sulcate
1. Adjective. Having deep narrow furrows or grooves.
Definition of Sulcate
1. a. Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.
Definition of Sulcate
1. Adjective. Having deep, narrow sulci, grooves or furrows ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sulcate
1. having long, narrow furrows [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sulcate
Literary usage of Sulcate
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, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Habit and foliage nearly as in the preceding, more robust ; corolla larger,
bluish-purple ; pod triangular in section, sulcate dorsally. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"... not sulcate externally, tarsi with the last joint as long as the first, ungues
wuu a large obtusely rounded basal dilatation. ..."
3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"Perfectly spherical fruits and other fruits ribbed- sulcate and a little larger
were frequently seen by ..."
4. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"We observed a callosity, with a sulcate line on each side of the five calli, on
the original specimen in 1850; whether it is constant we cannot say : it has ..."
5. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Pedicles triangular, sulcate, clothed with a few short inconspicuous hairs on
the upper part, as is also the ova- rium. ..."
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