flabellate
adjective
being in the shape of a fan; fan-shaped.
flabelliform
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a variation of
flabellate.
Example Sentences
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The branches are flat, or flabelliform; but some of them are triangular in section, with the three sides hollowed out.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
P. 3-6 cm. flaccid, more or less flabelliform, thin, strigose, zoned, pallid; g. broad, crowded, unequally branched, whitish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The flabelliform palms preserve their scales at the inferior extremity of the trunk only, but lose them as they increase in age; and the stem is entirely bare, from the middle to the superior extremity.
From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. Martin
A branch of this latter shape, 9 inches in length and 1 ½ in diameter, was chosen for observation, as less likely to circumnutate than a flabelliform branch.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
The third and the fourth glumes embracing the fifth and the sixth are empty, flabelliform, 4-lobed, and dorsally shortly awned.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
