spathulate


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spathulate

(ˈspæθjʊlɪt)
adj
(Botany) another word for spatulate2
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2E), the activity of which resulted in the acquisition of a spathulate shape.
All the floral segments of Euanthe are broadly ovate to circular; in Vanda the floral segments of the majority of the species are spathulate (spoon-shaped).
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oleracea is a succulent, erect herb with oblong ovate or spathulate leaves and cuneate or sessile base.
The cusp of these teeth is generally obliquely trigonal and rather coarsely dentate, with the central denticle often spathulate, but in Granata the cusps are less oblique and, like the rachidian, finely serrate (Fig.
[The leaves] are named: cuneiform and ensiform, spathulate and saggitate and their margins are serrated, lapidary, lobed (17) The language that describes (or names) the fossil leaves implies their remembered living embodiment, and the act of inscription is related to the speaker's sense of groundedness in her self.
13 x 3.5 mm, free, entire, pale green, finely nerved, thin in texture, inconspicuously white-lepidote along the central-distal portion to glabrous, the adaxial ones carinate with keels decurrent on the ovary, the abaxial one obtusely if at all carinate; petals spathulate, apex rounded and remotely apiculate, ca.