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angulate

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an·gu·late  (nggy-lt, -lt)
adj.
Having angles or an angular shape.
tr. & intr.v. (-lt) an·gu·lat·ed, an·gu·lat·ing, an·gu·lates
To make or become angular.
angu·late·ly adv.
angulate
adj [ˈæŋgjʊlɪt -ˌleɪt]
having angles or an angular shape
vb [ˈæŋgjʊˌleɪt]
to make or become angular
[from Late Latin angulāre to make angled, from Latin angulus angle1]
angulated  adj
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Verb1.angulate - make or become angularangulate - make or become angular              
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
Adj.1.angulate - having angles or an angular shapeangulate - having angles or an angular shape    
angular
pointed - having a point
square - having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
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Back in the Galapagos, Sir David also visited a colony of angulate tortoises, best known for bloody "jousting" using lances on the front of their enormous shells.
Sir David's natural hisstory; TV preview Sir David Attenborough ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
78) dextral, up to 30 mm, thick, elongate and acute-conical, 7-14 whorls, apical whorls bearing 1-3 carinae; body whorl shouldered at outer periphery, striate below; aperture angulate, lacrimate, canaliculate (Harmen & Berg 1971); growth lines inconspicuous; subfossils usually fragmented, lack periostracum.
An illustrated catalogue of macroscopic subfossils from ... by Swinehart, Anthony L. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Displaced fractures will usually angulate in an apex volar direction due to attachments of the interossei muscles.
Fractures of the hand and carpal navicular bone in athletes by Walsh, John J., IV / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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