ligulate

American  

[lig-yuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈlɪg yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

Also ligulated

adjective

1. having or forming a ligula.

2. having the shape of a strap.

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ligulate British  

/ ˈlɪɡjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having the shape of a strap

2. biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula

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Etymology

Origin of ligulate

First recorded in 1745–55; ligul(a) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The ligulate or Strap-shaped corolla mainly belongs to the family of Composit�, in which numerous small flowers are gathered into a head, within an involucre that imitates a calyx.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Heads discoid, the flowers all alike and tubular; or else radiate, the outer ones ligulate and pistillate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, e.g. in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

P. 1 cm. ligulate, ascending, silky, not zoned; g. fold-like, tumid, distant, forked; s. short, pruinose; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The order is divided into two suborders:—Tubuliflorae, characterized by absence of latex, and the florets of the disk being not ligulate, and Liguliflorae, characterized by presence of latex and all the florets being ligulate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various