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Definition of Cancellate
1. Adjective. Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Reticular, Reticulate
2. Adjective. Having an open or latticed or porous structure.
Category relationships: Anatomy, General Anatomy
Similar to: Cellular
Definition of Cancellate
1. a. Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
Medical Definition of Cancellate
1. Latticed, or resembling a latticed construction, usually said of a surface such as that of an achene or seed. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancellate
Literary usage of Cancellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Under the microscope the cancellate sculpture may be seen to be definite, ...
With the naked eye, the cancellate character appears inconspicuous so that the ..."
2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"A. External surface radially costate or cancellate at least in the ... surface not
radially costate nor cancellate Exogyra ponderosa Etymology: ifa, ..."
3. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"Nut smooth or very minutely striate or cancellate. Style-bulb aliate at the base,
... F. dichotoma. versely cancellate. Perennials, often above 1 ft. high. ..."
4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"A. External surface radially costate or cancellate at least in the ... ~B.
External surface not radially costate nor cancellate. ..."
5. Rome and Venice: With Other Wanderings in Italy, in 1866-7 by George Augustus Sala (1869)
"The cancellate, that grim range of dungeon-bars, which screened the colonnade,
and behind which the Austrian drums and the Austrian banner, ..."
6. Contributions to Geology by Isaac Lea (1833)
"This pretty little species is remarkably elevated in the spire and beautifully
cancellate. A single specimen only was obtained, the outer lip of which is ..."
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