Definition of Elongates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of elongate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Elongates

1. elongate [v] - See also: elongate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elongates

eloigns
eloin
eloined
eloiner
eloiners
eloining
eloinment
eloinments
eloins
elong
elongase
elongases
elongate
elongate leaf
elongated
elongates
elongating
elongation
elongation factor
elongational
elongationally
elongations
elongator
elonged
elonging
elongs
elope
eloped
elopement
elopements

Literary usage of Elongates

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... the same time one of the secondary axes elongates, becoming tfa principal axis of the adult, and the body : comes bilaterally symmetrical with referen. ..."

2. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"The "cumulus," at first almost hemispherical, elongates over the surface of the blastoderm, becoming pyri- form. This region is the posterior, or anal, ..."

3. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"at first almost hemispherical, elongates over the surface of the blastoderm, becoming pyri- form. This region is the posterior, or anal, pole of the egg. ..."

4. Guide to the British Mycetozoa Exhibited in the Department of Botany by Arthur Lister (1903)
"... flagellum is first withdrawn, and the swarm-cell assumes a globular form; it then elongates, and a constriction occurs at right angles to the long axis. ..."

5. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1834)
"... terminating in a small corymbose head of minute, white, inodorous flowers, which elongates into a fruit-bearing raceme or cluster. ..."

6. The London Medical Recorder (1850)
"... enhancing their tonicity by the medicinal articles contained, while it elongates or produces the vagina, and thus supports the womb t» situ. ..."

7. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"The "cumulus," at first almost hemispherical, elongates over the surface of the blastoderm, becoming pyri- form. This region is the posterior, or anal, ..."

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