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Definition of Sagittate
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes.
Definition of Sagittate
1. a. Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
Definition of Sagittate
1. Adjective. Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point a one end, and two points at the other. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany of leaves) Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sagittate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Sagittate
1. Shaped like an arrow-head. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagittate
Literary usage of Sagittate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"least on the petioles ; the cauline entire, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, clasping
by the sagittate base : petals 2 to 3 lines long, little exceeding the ..."
2. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"Q- pouch orbicular, its wings dilated longitudinal, seeds concentrically striated,
leaves oblong sagittate toothed glabrous. ..."
3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"notch, 7 lines long, the inner narrower; anthers short-sagittate; style ously 4
to 6-nerved, emarginate at apex, with a slender tooth in the terminated by ..."
4. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain: Or Coloured Figures and by James Sowerby (1829)
"... umbilicus very small, almost concealed ; carene slightly convex, its margins
crenated by the angular terminations of the plicae ; aperture sagittate. ..."
5. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1830)
"Stamens deep orange : Anthers sagittate, very acute. Stigmas longer than the
stamens, of the same colour with them, two short, one much longer, slender, ..."
6. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... (337) sagittate, arrow-shaped, with the lobes pointed, and directed backward ; (332)
hastate, halbert- shaped, the lobes directed outward. ..."
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