valvate
furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
serving as or resembling a valve.
Botany.
opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers.
meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds.
composed of or characterized by such parts.
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How to use valvate in a sentence
Cones globular, with peltate, valvate scales, firmly closed till ripe; the scales thick and pointed at the center.
Trees of the Northern United States | Austin C. ApgarSepals 4, or rarely more, colored, the valvate margins turned inward in the bud.
Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.
Corolla salver-form or funnel-form, usually much longer than the calyx-lobes, 4-lobed, the lobes valvate in the bud.
Corolla funnel-form, 4-lobed; the lobes spreading, densely bearded inside, valvate in the bud.
British Dictionary definitions for valvate
/ (ˈvælveɪt) /
furnished with a valve or valves
functioning as or resembling a valve
botany
having or taking place by means of valves: valvate dehiscence
(of petals or sepals in the bud) having the margins touching but not overlapping
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