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sagittate

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sag·it·tate  (sj-tt)
adj. Biology
Having the shape of an arrowhead: sagittate leaves; sagittate shells.
[Latin sagitta, arrow + -ate.]
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sagittate
sagittate leaf
sagittate [ˈsædʒɪˌteɪt], sagittiform [səˈdʒɪtɪˌfɔːm ˈsædʒ-]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (esp of leaves) shaped like the head of an arrow
[from New Latin sagittātus, from Latin sagitta arrow]
sagittate
shaped like an arrowhead, especially plant leaves shaped like elongated triangles.
See also: Arrows
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Adj.1.sagittate - (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
arrow-shaped, sagittiform
unsubdivided, simple - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions
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Sterile fronds to 46 cm long; lamina to 29 cm long, sagittate, ovate-lanceolate to 3-5-lobate, occasionally pentagonal, pedate, usually broadly pinnatilobed, apex acute to acuminate; margin serrate with ascending teeth; hydathodes present.
Doryopteris majestosa (Pteridaceae), a new species from South America by Yesilyurt, Jovita Cislinski / American Fern Journal
Stamens 5; filaments slender, adnate at middle of the corolla tube, slightly winged at base; anthers dorsifixed, bilobed, [+ or -] sagittate, creamy-white.
Observations on gentiana kurroo royle, a critically endangered ... by Khuroo, A.A.; Dar, G.H.; Khan, Z.S.; Reshi, Z.A. / Endangered Species Update
The word sagittate comes from the Latin word sagitta, which means an arrow.
Sifting through the right garden sands by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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