Definition of Sagittate-leaf

1. Noun. A leaf shaped like an arrow head.

Exact synonyms: Sagittiform Leaf
Generic synonyms: Simple Leaf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagittate-leaf

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
sagittate-leaf (current term)
sagittiform
sagittiform leaf
sagittocyst
sagittocysts
sago
sago fern
sago palm
sago palms
sago pudding
sago puddings
sago spleen
sagoin
sagoins
sagos

Literary usage of Sagittate-leaf

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

1. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... a hastate leaf, with the principal lobe lanceolate; ~ sagittate, a sagittate leaf, the middle lobe lanceolate; lance o'vate (Crozier), lanceolate ovate, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Sagittate leaf of Convolvulus. The petiole or leaf-stalk is the part which unites the limb or blade of the leaf to the stem. It is absent in sessile leaves, ..."

3. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"... shaped like a crescent : ai• folium sagit- tatum, a sagittate leaf; a leaf shaped like the head of an arrow *: 22 folium ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The leaves of some Monocotyledones have a lamina in which growth persists at its lower end. In this way there arises a sagittate leaf, such as we find in ..."

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