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Definition of Glabrate
1. a. Becoming smooth or glabrous from age.
Definition of Glabrate
1. Adjective. Becoming smooth (as if with age) ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Somewhat glabrous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glabrate
1. glabrous [adj] - See also: glabrous
Medical Definition of Glabrate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Glabrate
Literary usage of Glabrate
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)
"Ascending or decumbent, 1-1.5 dm. high, cinereous with minute appressed pubescence
or glabrate; leaflets about 21, narrowly oblong ; spike dense, ..."
2. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"tomentose on both sides or glabrate above; peduncles naked from a ends; leaves
obovate to oblanceolate, acute, J to 1 in. long; peduncle diffusely branched ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"very tough ; branchlets glabrate. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., cordate, petioled,
uppermost ovate, the rest palmately 3-5-lobed to the middle ; lobes ovate, ..."
4. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"Stems short, ascending, glabrate: leaflets 11- 25, obovate : flowers in loose
spikes : pods sessile, linear-oblong, strongly curved, glabrous, WW long, ..."
5. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"... equal, ovate or ova!, usually sharply dentate, closely sessile by a broad
base, or lowest with contracted base : akènes commonly glabrate or glabrous. ..."
6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"A tall shrub with few stems, or a small tree, 2-5 m. high; twigs short, brown or
darker, pubescent or glabrate: leaves small to medium, narrowly elliptical ..."
7. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"... or in age glabrate, rounded at the apex, the middle ones more or less
lyrate-pinnatifid at the base, the upper 1-3 cm. long, lanceolate in outline, ..."
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