Definition of Sagittate

1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes.

Exact synonyms: Arrow-shaped, Sagittiform
Similar to: Simple, Unsubdivided

Definition of Sagittate

1. a. Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

Definition of Sagittate

1. Adjective. Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point a one end, and two points at the other. ¹

2. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sagittate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Sagittate

1. Shaped like an arrow-head. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagittate

sagittal fontanel
sagittal groove
sagittal line
sagittal plane
sagittal section
sagittal split mandibular osteotomy
sagittal sulcus
sagittal suture
sagittal synostosis
sagittalis
sagittally
sagittaries
sagittarius
sagittary
sagittas
sagittate (current term)
sagittate-leaf
sagittiform
sagittiform leaf
sagittocyst
sagittocysts
sago
sago fern
sago palm
sago palms
sago pudding
sago puddings
sago spleen
sagoin
sagoins

Literary usage of Sagittate

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

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"least on the petioles ; the cauline entire, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, clasping by the sagittate base : petals 2 to 3 lines long, little exceeding the ..."

2. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"Q- pouch orbicular, its wings dilated longitudinal, seeds concentrically striated, leaves oblong sagittate toothed glabrous. ..."

3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"notch, 7 lines long, the inner narrower; anthers short-sagittate; style ously 4 to 6-nerved, emarginate at apex, with a slender tooth in the terminated by ..."

4. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain: Or Coloured Figures and by James Sowerby (1829)
"... umbilicus very small, almost concealed ; carene slightly convex, its margins crenated by the angular terminations of the plicae ; aperture sagittate. ..."

5. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1830)
"Stamens deep orange : Anthers sagittate, very acute. Stigmas longer than the stamens, of the same colour with them, two short, one much longer, slender, ..."

6. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... (337) sagittate, arrow-shaped, with the lobes pointed, and directed backward ; (332) hastate, halbert- shaped, the lobes directed outward. ..."

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