sagittate

American  

[saj-i-teyt] / ˈsædʒ ɪˌteɪt /

Also sagittiform

adjective

Biology.

1. shaped like an arrowhead.

   sagittate leaves of the calla lily;

   sagittate markings on a moth.

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sagittate British  

/ səˈdʒɪtɪˌfɔːm, ˈsædʒ-, ˈsædʒɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. (esp of leaves) shaped like the head of an arrow

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Other Word Forms

• half-sagittate adjective

Etymology

Origin of sagittate

First recorded in 1750–60; from New Latin sagittātus “shaped like an arrowhead,” from Latin sagittātus “shot or wounded by an arrow,” past participle of sagittāre “to shoot or discharge arrows,” derivative of sagitta; Sagitta; -ate ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Leaves more or less sagittate; spathe green Arrow Arum, Peltandra virginica.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

This belt is divided into four spaces, in each of 413 which there is a checkered, terraced pyramid pointing downward; the lower part and sides of each space is occupied with triangular and sagittate figures.

From Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 by Stevenson, James

Anthers with tails or acutely sagittate; pappus none.—Low, densely floccose-woolly annuals; extreme western.

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

Anthers sagittate, the basal lobes attenuate into tails.

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

Seeds not so broad as the partition, in two more or less distinct rows in each cell, at least when young; strict and very leafy-stemmed biennials; cauline leaves partly clasping by a sagittate base.

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

Related Words

• barbed
• sharp