Definition of Rosulate

1. a. Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

Definition of Rosulate

1. Adjective. (botany) Arranged in little rose-like clusters; said of leaves and bracts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rosulate

1. arranged in the form of a rosette [adj]

Medical Definition of Rosulate

1. Clustered into a rosette. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosulate

rostrated
rostrifera
rostriform
rostrodorsal
rostrula
rostrulum
rostrum
rostrum corporis callosi
rostrum of corpus callosum
rostrum of the sphenoid bone
rostrum sphenoidale
rostrums
rosts
rosula
rosulas
rosulate (current term)
rosuvastatin
rosy
rosy-cheeked
rosy-lipped batfish
rosy boa
rosy tern
rosy terns
rosying
rosé wine
rosé wines
rot
rot-13
rot-proof
rot in jail

Literary usage of Rosulate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Lvs. many, rosulate, »tout, recurved, short- acute, very strongly and irregularly marked and banded with dark ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"—Low dichotomously branched annuals (the Chilian species mostly perennial), with usually rosulate radical leaves, ..."

3. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"acuminate, rosulate, serrate above, costate to near the apex : antheridia sessile in the axil of a leaf, or in young plants terminal in the buds and ..."

4. A Manual of Determinative Bacteriology by Frederick Dixon Chester (1901)
"... an aggregate of colonies, like the budding of the yeast plant. Fig. 12, B. rosulate, shaped like a rosette. B. Surface Elevation. 1. ..."

5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"Leaves all rosulate- ... or at least persistent ; the leaves small, linear, imbricated or rosulate on the branches, or some of them scattered and alternate. ..."

6. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1878)
"Flowers umbellate-clustered from the uppermost rosulate tuft of leaves: tube of ... nearly all in proliferous rosulate tufts, not ciliate, rather obtuse, ..."

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