Spatulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Shaped like a spatula.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
  • adj. Having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
  • v. To treat or mix with a spatula.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Shaped like a spatula; in zoology and anatomy, spoon-shaped, or rounded more or less like the outlines of a spoon; spatuliform; in botany, shaped like a spatula; resembling a spatula in shape, being oblong or rounded with a long narrow attenuate base: as, a spatulate leaf, petal, or other flattened organ. Also spathulate. See cuts under Eurynorhynchus, paddle-fish, Parotia, Prioniturus, Spathura, and shoveler.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base
  • Equivalent
    unsubdivided    simple   
    Variant
    spathulate   
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