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Medical Definition of Ligulated

1. 1. Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped. 2. Composed of ligules. Ligulate flower, a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular. Origin: Cf. F. Ligule. See Ligule, and cf. Lingulate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Ligulated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Intellectual Observer (1865)
"Doubled or ligulated letters are frequently introduced in these inscriptions, an example of which is given in the lower figure to the right, where the first ..."

2. Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archaeology, as Exemplified in by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (1870)
"Doubled or ligulated letters are frequently introduced into these inscriptions, an example of which is given in the lower figure to the right, ..."

3. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1805)
"2. An outer Palea of the Receptacle. 1. The Calyx. 3. An inner Palea. 4. Part of one of the ligulated Florets. 5. The abortive Stigma contained in. iU 6. ..."

4. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"... and among the former W certainly occurs in a curious form, having apparently been constructed out of a ligulated double V. I would, therefore, ..."

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