subulate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of subulate
1750–60; < New Latin sūbulātus, equivalent to Latin sūbul ( a ) awl + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Leaves deeply 2–3-cleft or -parted, incurved, the lobes subulate, formed of a somewhat double series of cells; underleaves similar; perianth ciliate.
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
Receptacle convex to globose, beset with bristle-like or subulate or short and soft chaff.
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
Style undivided or 2-cleft only at the apex; stigmas 2, linear-filiform to subulate or ovate.
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
Nearly smooth; leaves oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, unequally serrate; bracts linear-lanceolate and subulate, conspicuous.—Wet places; in all cultivated districts.
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
Spines long, subulate, very sharp, ash-coloured, in clusters.
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