Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a puckered or blistered appearance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bubble or boil.
- In botany, having elevations like blisters.
- In pathology, blistered.
- In anatomy, inflated; vaulted; ventricous; fornicated and with thin walls: as, a bullate tympanic bone (that is, one forming a bulla ossea).
- In zoology, having the surface covered with irregular and slight elevations, giving a blistered appearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
- adjective (Bot.) a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Resembling a
bulla orblister ;inflated ;blistered ;bulliform . - adjective medicine Of bacterial cultures, having a a growth which is blistered; rising in convex prominences.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Of money they haue no vse at all, and therefore prefer brasse and steele before other metals, specially bullate, which they vse for swordes, kniues, and other necessaries.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Such leaves as those of the hedgehog holly, _Ilex Aquifolium_, var. _feroæ_, and, to a less extent, bullate leaves, may also be mentioned here as illustrations of hypertrophy or enation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Vesicular: More or less covered with minute vesicles due to gas formation; more minute than bullate.
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Of money they haue no vse at all, and therefore prefer brasse and steele before other metals, specially bullate, which they vse for swordes, kniues, and other necessaries.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
reesetee commented on the word bullate
having a puckered or blistered appearance
June 12, 2007