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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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 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
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
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
