Definition of Cordately

1. adv. In a cordate form.

Definition of Cordately

1. Adverb. In a cordate form. ¹

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Definition of Cordately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cordately

corchorus
corchoruses
cord
cord blood
cord factor
cord factors
cord of tympanum
cordage
cordages
cordate
cordate leaf
cordate pelvis
cordately (current term)
cordebec
cordebeck
cordebecks
cordebecs
cordectomies
cordectomy
corded
cordelle
cordelled
cordelles
cordelling
corder
corderoite
corders

Literary usage of Cordately

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

1. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Lobe of the Style large, cordately elliptic, obtuse, more or less spotted, keeled inside : side lobes short, bluntly rounded, fleshy, each producing an ..."

2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"... leaves all entire, the basal ones spatulate and narrowed to a long petiole; cauline leaves oblong or ovate, sessile and almost cordately clasping; ..."

3. Transactions by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, Norwick Eng, Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1904)
"... leaves with five to eight pairs of sessile leaflets, w&k are rounded at the base, hut not cordately emarginate, ind tii flowers are usually white. ..."

4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Persistent petals at length somewhat scarious. Filaments exceeding the anthers. Ovary 3 - 6-carpelled, the short style bearing as many cordately 2-lobed ..."

5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1881)
"... or more, across, and throwing out numerous vines each year from the margin of the crown. The leaves are large, rough, cordately triangular, ..."

6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"COrdately (kôr'dât-li), adv. In a cordate form. cordate-oblong (kôr'dât-ob'lông), a. Of the general shape of a heart, but somewhat lengthened. ..."

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