ligulate
Americanadjective
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having the shape of a strap
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biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula
Etymology
Origin of ligulate
Example Sentences
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On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Those of the circumference are ligulate and ordinarily unisexual, without stamens.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Leaves large, incubous, complicate-bilobed; lower lobe ligulate, suberect; underleaves similar, decurrent at base, the apex entire.
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 Asa Gray
Botanical Description.—A stemless plant, the leaves springing immediately from the root as in the pineapple, joined at the base, straight, ligulate, very fleshy and becoming thinner toward the end, with stiff thorns along the edges.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
The passage of ligulate to tubular corollas among Compositæ is not of such common occurrence as is the converse change.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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