Lexic.us

Definition of Auriculate

1. Adjective. Having auricles.

Definition of Auriculate

1. a. Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zoöl.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.

Definition of Auriculate

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of auriculated) ¹

2. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Having two round lobes, often curved, at the base extending beyond the attachment point. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Auriculate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auriculate

Literary usage of Auriculate

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

1. Natural History of New York by New York (State). Natural History Survey, James Ellsworth De Kay (1883)
"Anterior extremity auriculate; wing large, extremity produced. Test without prominent rays. ... instead of auriculate and rounded. Hinge-line narrow. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... leaves sessile by a mostly narrowed but auriculate or partly flapping base : heads in a pyramidal more crowded panicle. ..."

3. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... becoming (334) cordate, or heart-shaped, an ovate outline with a sinus or re-entering angle at base; (331) auriculate, with ear-shaped lobes at base; ..."

4. The American homoeopathic pharmacopoeia by Joseph T. O'Connor (1883)
"Its leaves are alternate, on petioles, ovate, acuminate, the lower ones entire, the upper becoming auriculate or hastate. Flowers drooping, in cyme-like ..."

5. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... lined within with white woolly hairs; limb deeply five-lobed, concave, of a rich pink, with the lobes rounded, imbricate and auriculate at the base. ..."

6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"... and commonly with auriculate-dilated appendage at base: disk 16-20 mm. in diameter: rays 12, 15-25 mm. long, deeply 3-cleft at summit: achenes obovate, ..."

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