Definitions
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 longtongue - adjective Having a
ligule
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Examples
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The ligulate corollas also may often be found in Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, &c., more or less deeply divided into their component parts.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The _leaf-blade_ is flat, thinly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate and acuminate, or ligulate with a rounded tip, 3 to 5 inches in length, 3/16 to 5/16 inch wide, glabrous or very thinly scaberulous, base rounded or slightly cordate with long white ciliate hairs on the small basal lobes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_Compositæ_ there is, as is well known, a distinction between the florets of the "disc" and those of the "ray," the latter being ligulate, the former tubular.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Glyceria fluitans_, the spikelet of which, as observed by Wigand, [291] consisted below of the ordinary unchanged glumes, but the remaining paleæ as well as the lodicles and stamens were represented by ligulate leaves.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The passage of ligulate to tubular corollas among _Compositæ_ is not of such common occurrence as is the converse change.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, _e. g._ in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Ligulifloræ_, the florets are naturally all ligulate, so that the change above mentioned is not in itself a very grave one.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I am unable to learn to what species it is most nearly related; its name, which doubtless has reference to its peculiar form and habit, would seem to isolate it even from its parents, if such are known; it, however, belongs to that section having thick leathery leaves, ligulate, encrusted, arranged in rosette form, and having excavated dots.
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On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I owe to Mr. Berkeley the communication of a capitulum of a species of _Bidens_, in which there was a transition from the form of ligulate corollas to those that were deeply divided into three, four, or five oblong lobes.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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