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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Strap-shaped.
  • adjective Having a ligule.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany: Strap-shaped: said chiefly of the rays of the tubuliflorous and the corollas of the liguliflorous Compositæ.
  • Furnished with a ligule: as, a ligulate grass; having a ligulate corolla: as, a ligulate flower; having ligulate flowers: as, a ligulate head.
  • In zoology, strap-shaped: specifically applied
  • to the cochlea of vertebrates below mammals, in distinction from helicine or helicoid;
  • in entomology, to parts which are long, narrow, flat, and parallel-sided or nearly so, as the tongue of a butterfly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.
  • adjective Composed of ligules.
  • adjective a species of compound flower, the florets of which have their corollets flat, spreading out toward the end, with the base only tubular.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like a strap or long tongue
  • adjective Having a ligule

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