valvate

American  

[val-veyt] / ˈvæl veɪt /

adjective

1. furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.

2. serving as or resembling a valve.

3. Botany.

   1. opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers.

   2. meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds.

   3. composed of or characterized by such parts.

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valvate British  

/ ˈvælveɪt /

adjective

1. furnished with a valve or valves

2. functioning as or resembling a valve

3. botany

   1. having or taking place by means of valves

      valvate dehiscence

   2. (of petals or sepals in the bud) having the margins touching but not overlapping

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Etymology

Origin of valvate

First recorded in 1820–30, valvate is from the Latin word valvātus with folding doors. See valve, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Corolla 4-parted, rarely 3-parted, wheel-shaped, valvate in the bud.

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

Corolla little longer than the calyx, somewhat funnel-form, 5-lobed, valvate in the bud.

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

Corolla either strap-shaped or tubular; in the latter chiefly 5-lobed, valvate in the bud, the veins bordering the margins of the lobes.

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

Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.

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

Calyx without bractlets, of 5 almost distinct sepals, valvate in the bud.

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