Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing or furnished with an ocrea, greave, or legging; booted.
  • In botany, furnished with an ocrea or sheath (through which the stem passes), formed by a stipule or by the union of two stipules.
  • In ornithology, booted; having the tarsal envelop continuous; having a holothecal podotheca. See boot and caligula.
  • In zoology, sheathed as if with stipules; having ocreæ.

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

  • adjective Same as ochreate, ochreated.

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  • adjective Alternative form of ochreate.

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  • legging to boot

    November 30, 2011