subulate

American  

[soo-byuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈsu byə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

Biology.

1. slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.

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subulate British  

/ ˈsuːbjəlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. (esp of plant parts) tapering to a point; awl-shaped

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Etymology

Origin of subulate

1750–60; < New Latin sūbulātus, equivalent to Latin sūbul ( a ) awl + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Stipules none; leaves slightly connate at base, subulate Knawel, Scleranthus annuus. 1b.

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

Suffruticulose and creeping-cespitose, evergreen, with mostly crowded and fascicled subulate and rigid leaves.

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

Receptacle convex to subulate, chaffy, the scarious chaff not embracing the smooth dorsally compressed achenes.

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

The leaf-sheath is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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 Gray, Asa