explanate

[ eks-pluh-neyt, eks-pley-neyt ]

adjectiveBotany, Zoology.
  1. flattened; spread out.

Origin of explanate

1
1840–50; <Latin explānātus, past participle of explānāre to explain; see -ate1

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