sulcate

American  

[suhl-kayt] / ˈsʌl keɪt /

Sometimes sulcated

adjective

1. having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.

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sulcate British  

/ ˈsʌlkeɪt /

adjective

1. biology marked with longitudinal parallel grooves

   sulcate stems

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Other Word Forms

• sulcation
  noun
• multisulcate
  adjective
• multisulcated
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of sulcate

First recorded in 1750–60, sulcate is from the Latin word sulcātus (past participle of sulcāre to plow). See sulcus, -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

sulcate

P. spathulato-flabelliform, rigid, coriaceous, concentrically sulcate, radiately rugose, dingy brick-red; g. crowded, paler than p., edge brownish; s. expanding into pileus, apex virgate; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. soon plane, grey, margin sulcate; g. adnexed; s. subglabrous, ring distant, volva absent. strobiliformis, Vitt.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. depr., edge sulcate and tuberculose, brownish bay; gills clear ochre; s. white; taste mild.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. viscid, sulcate, yellow-brown, flesh under cuticle brown, rest white; g. forked near stem, white then yellow; s. very fragile, hollow, white, often spotted red below.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. very thin, exp. flocculose, sulcate, yellow; g. free, narrow, subochraceous; s. narrowed, mealy, yellowish.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

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