vittate
Americanadjective
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provided with or having a vitta or vittae.
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striped longitudinally.
Etymology
Origin of vittate
1820–30; < Latin vittātus, equivalent to vitt ( a ) fillet + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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They are of the same galeate form as in many others of the Escharinae, but are not as in them placed above the mouth of the cell, but below it in front: and in all cases the shape of the ovicell-bearing cell is much altered from the rest, and in all the vittate species the cell upon which the ovicell is produced arises from its predecessor, not with the intervention of a short tube, but is immediately sessile upon it, by a broad base. a.
From Project Gutenberg
The cells are the largest of any in the Vittate division, and very regular and uniform in size and outline.
From Project Gutenberg
The gibbous form of the cells, and the peculiar anterior position of the avicularia, at the base of the projecting lateral processes, at once distinguish it from all the other vittate species.
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