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ligulate
[ lig-yuh-lit, -leyt ]
ligulate
/ ˈlɪɡjʊlɪt; -ˌleɪt /
adjective
- having the shape of a strap
- biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula
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Example Sentences
Leaves large, incubous, complicate-bilobed; lower lobe ligulate, suberect; underleaves similar, decurrent at base, the apex entire.
Head many-flowered; ray-flowers in several rows, narrowly ligulate, pistillate, fertile; disk-flowers with undivided style, sterile.
Corolla ligulate in all the flowers of the head, and all the flowers perfect.—Herbs, with milky juice.
Heads many-flowered, somewhat diœcious; in the substerile plant with a single row of ligulate pistillate ray-flowers, and many tubular sterile ones in the disk; in the fertile plant wholly or chiefly of pistillate flowers, tubular or distinctly ligulate.
Rays present; i.e. the marginal flowers or some of them with ligulate corollas.
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