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Definition of Lanceolate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex.
Definition of Lanceolate
1. a. Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
Definition of Lanceolate
1. Adjective. (botany mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: technical) Of a class of knapped stone points, made without a stem, shoulders, notches, or other features that aid in attachment to a shaft. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lanceolate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Lanceolate
1. Lancelike, of a leaf, about four times as long as it is broad, broadest in the lower half and tapering towards the tip. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanceolate
Literary usage of Lanceolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Leaves oblong, or broadly lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base,
... Corolla densely bearded in the throat; stem leaves lanceolate. i. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"NE Br. Petioles 4-6 in. long; leaf- blade oblong-elliptical or oblong - lanceolate,
very sharply acuminate, abruptly obtuse and contracted into я node at ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"About 2-3 ft. high: Ivs. lanceolate, 6-8 x 2-2И in., bright shining green with
a broad creamy white or often pink margin and oblique stripes of the same ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"leaves sessile, serrate, glabrous, spatulate lanceolate, tapering to the base,
... leaves clasping, spatulate lanceolate, acuminate, serrate in the middle, ..."
5. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"scape leafless;* scape and pedicels pilose: leaves lanceolate, ... leaves
broad-lanceolate, somewhat veiny, entire; hairs forked and simple: icles elliptic: ..."
6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Dichotomously branched perennials, often large, on the ground, rocks, or rarely
trees. Leaves spreading or falcate-secund, long-lanceolate or lance-subulate ..."
7. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Leaves lanceolate, feffile. Branches elongated.—Native of birch thickets, and
open groves, ... Leaves linear- lanceolate ; the lower ones tapering down into ..."
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