explanate

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

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. flattened; spread out.

Word History and Origins

Origin of explanate¹

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

Example Sentences

Explanate, spread or flattened out.

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Easily known by its long, tubular sporangia packed with rusty spores and destitute of any trace of columella or capillitium, the hypothallus explanate, rather thick, but not columnar.

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The pileus is explanate, white, fibrillose, dry, striate, center slightly depressed when mature.

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The plant is small, waxy-pliant, somewhat coriaceous, cup-shaped, then explanate, confluent, marginate, externally white-tomentose.

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The pileus is white, corky, horizontal, explanate, reniform, subsessile, azonate, finely pubescent, becoming smooth.

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