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Definition of Ensate
1. a. Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.
Definition of Ensate
1. Adjective. (botany zoology) Having sword-shaped leaves or appendages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ensate
1. in botany, sword-shaped [adj]
Medical Definition of Ensate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensate
Literary usage of Ensate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... years to make conquests at home, which will richly com- r ensate her for what
she lost abroad. That the unwieldy creation called the Bund was not a ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1854)
"... or even general benefit, may comp'ensate; and the question must always remain
whether he who assumes, is entitled to exert, a censorship over morals and ..."
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