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Definition of Sagittiform
1. Adjective. (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes.
Definition of Sagittiform
1. Adjective. A botanical descriptor, applied to leaves and some animals, meaning "to have the form of an arrowhead, but lacking flaring lobes on the base". Sagittiform leaves lack divisions and subdivisions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagittiform
Literary usage of Sagittiform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"The tongue is sagittiform, 6^ twelfths long, with two conical papilla? at the
base, soft, fleshy, flat above, horny beneath. Aperture of the glottis 4^ ..."
2. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1841)
"Fore-neck and breast marked with sagittiform spots of blackish-brown; sides under
the wings streaked with the same colour. Length 5| inches, extent of wings ..."
3. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... small sagittiform pituitary space (" basi-cranial fontanelle," bcf), so as to
be further forwards than the hind margin of the sub-ocular fenestra (sof). ..."
4. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1879)
"Below, a (discal) row of large fulvous sagittiform spots on fore wings.
Secondaries as in Asterias." I indicate the important part of this description by ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1878)
"Below, a (discal) row of large fulvous sagittiform spots on fore wings.
Secondaries as in Asterias." I indicate the important part of this description by ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"A third equally diaphanous, with very long flexible teeth, some of which have a
sagittiform termination, an extremely short snout and very (1) The ..."
7. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1844)
"The tongue is sagittiform, 6^ twelfths long, with two conical papilla? at the
base, soft, fleshy, flat above, horny beneath. Aperture of the glottis 4^ ..."
8. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1841)
"Fore-neck and breast marked with sagittiform spots of blackish-brown; sides under
the wings streaked with the same colour. Length 5| inches, extent of wings ..."
9. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... small sagittiform pituitary space (" basi-cranial fontanelle," bcf), so as to
be further forwards than the hind margin of the sub-ocular fenestra (sof). ..."
10. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1879)
"Below, a (discal) row of large fulvous sagittiform spots on fore wings.
Secondaries as in Asterias." I indicate the important part of this description by ..."
11. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1878)
"Below, a (discal) row of large fulvous sagittiform spots on fore wings.
Secondaries as in Asterias." I indicate the important part of this description by ..."
12. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"A third equally diaphanous, with very long flexible teeth, some of which have a
sagittiform termination, an extremely short snout and very (1) The ..."
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