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Definition of Aristate
1. a. Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
Definition of Aristate
1. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Having a long bristle at its apex. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aristate
1. arista [adj] - See also: arista
Medical Definition of Aristate
1. Having a stiff, bristle-like appendage or tip. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aristate
Literary usage of Aristate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"... acuminate, pale ; lemma densely clothed with long silky hairs, the aristate
teeth more than i the entire length of the lemma, awn 12-15 mm. long. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... calyx-tube about the length of the pedicel, the limb nearly equal to the tube,
with very short ovate and aristate lobes. Eu. and Amer., along the sea ..."
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