unicostate

[yoo-ni-kos-teyt, -kaw-steyt]

adjective

having only one costa, rib, or ridge.

Botany. (of a leaf) having only one primary or prominent rib, the midrib.

Origin of unicostate

First recorded in 1840–50; uni- + costate

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British Dictionary definitions for unicostate

unicostate

adjective

biology having only one rib or riblike partunicostate leaves

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