Definition of Peltately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peltately

peloton
pelotons
pels
pelt
pelt along
pelt down
pelt of the dog
pelta
peltae
peltas
peltast
peltasts
peltate
peltate leaf
peltated
peltately (current term)
peltation
peltations
pelted
pelter
peltered
peltering
pelters
peltidia
peltidium
peltiform
peltinerved
pelting
peltingly
peltings

Literary usage of Peltately

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

1. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Ovary upon an annular disk, •with 2—3 — 6 few-ovuled parietal placentas. Style entire or more or less divided, or the stigma subsessile, peltately lobed. ..."

2. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Anthers with the diverging or divaricate and distinct cells dehiscent from base nearly or quite to the apex, but not confluent, not peltately ..."

3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1900)
"... crowded at the top of the trunk ; leaves palmate ; leaflets 5 to 7, peltately arranged ; petiole very long, bi-stipulate at the base ; stipules lateral, ..."

4. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Anthers with the diverging or divaricate and distinct cells dehiscent from base nearly or quite to the apex, but not confluent, not peltately ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Herb with a thick scaly rootstock, 2-3 ft. high: basal Ivs. few, long-petioled, peltately 5-foliate. 6-18 in. diam.; Ifts. sessile, 5-10 in. long, ..."

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