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Definition of Spatulate leaf
1. Noun. Spatula-shaped leaf; having a broad rounded apex and narrow base.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spatulate Leaf
Literary usage of Spatulate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees of New York State: Native and Naturalized by Harry Philip Brown (1922)
"Leaves oblanceolate to spatulate; leaf-margin not revolute Salix purpurea 109 82.
Leaves pale white-glaucous beneath; apex acute Salix discolor 105 82. ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The long spatulate leaf has a thick, fleshy midrib, and at the base are developed
two pointed lobes which clasp the stalk. The leaf is soft anc leathery and ..."
3. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Such a stalk is sometimes said to be winged, and sometimes is considered as making
part of a spatulate leaf. Some genera, and even some natural orders, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... i'-i%' broad; calyx- lobes linear or spatulate, leaf-like, longer than the
spatulate segments of the pink rose-purple or whitish corolla; style 2-parted ..."
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