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Definition of Crispate
1. Adjective. Wavy or notched and curled very irregularly.
Definition of Crispate
1. a. Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.
Definition of Crispate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having curled, wavy or notched edges ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crispate
1. curled [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crispate
Literary usage of Crispate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"Leaves not crispate when dry 5. 5. Plants almost black throughout, very brittle;
... B 1. Leaves crispate when dry L(lota. Leaves not crispate ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"... as crispate, while the lobules of the bracts are said to bear clusters of fine
cilia at the base instead of distinct segments. ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"They are often more or less crispate and may be so dilated that they partially
... Sometimes the crispate nature of the auricles is so exaggerated that ..."
4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1878)
"... columella very large, crispate, of spongy, twisted tissue, or broad rounded
lobes more like the centre of a cauliflower. Alt. 12, maj. axis 10, min. ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"... of more fleshy consistence, more deeply and unequally lobed, the segments
being more or less crenated and crispate and somewhat reflexed; ..."
6. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"Costa, the nerve or midrib of a moss leaf. Costate, having a costa. crispate or
crisped, frizzled, curled and twisted in various ways. (Fig. 13. ..."
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