Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as ligulate.

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  • adjective ligulate

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Examples

  • It was nothing more nor less than a box, covered with sheets of virgin cork, and standing on the floor just under one of the windows, where the light and air could get to a weird-looking, rubbery-leaved, orchid-like plant, covered with ligulated scarlet blossoms which grew within it.

    Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

  • It was nothing more nor less than a box, covered with sheets of virgin cork, and standing on the floor just under one of the windows, where the light and air could get to a weird-looking, rubbery-leaved, orchid-like plant, covered with ligulated scarlet blossoms which grew within it.

    Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

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