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Definition of Elongate

1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) long and narrow.

2. Verb. Make long or longer by pulling and stretching. "Stretch the fabric"

3. Adjective. Having notably more length than width; being long and slender. "The old man's gaunt and elongated frame"

Definition of Elongate

1. v. t. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

2. v. i. To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

3. a. Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

Definition of Elongate

1. Adjective. lengthened, extended. ¹

2. Adjective. slender. ¹

3. Verb. To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Elongate

1. to lengthen [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES] - See also: lengthen

Medical Definition of Elongate

1. Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An elongate form." Origin: LL. Elongatus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elongate

eloigning eloignment eloignments eloigns eloin eloined eloiner eloiners eloining eloinment

eloinments eloins elong elongase elongases elongate (current term) elongate leaf elongated elongates elongating

elongation elongation factor elongational elongationally elongations elongator elonged elonging elongs elope

Literary usage of Elongate

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, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Petioles usually bearing only simple elongate glands ; bracts of the raceme mostly rounded at tip . . . . . • . 4. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"The fifth ventral segment is not elongate. Varies in coloration, t lie markings becoming more distinct as the brown color predominates. subfasciatus Group. ..."

3. Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"body elongate, thorax longer than broad : elytra attenuated to the apex. ... fuscous—The female is considerably wider than the male, and less elongate. ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"An elongate fusi- FlG a.—Side view of the bo.it constructed by Messrs Elliot!, with the undulating propeller de cribed in the text form muscle runs from ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"... R 71-72-73 L 87-88-89-90 R The two specimens differ structurally as follows: A. Body more elongate than in AA; pectorals a mere ridge ; nostrils remote ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... high-arched feet elongate most ; short, fleshy feet leas. In the first case the elongation varies from one fourth of an inch to one inch. ..."

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