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oblanceolate

[ ob-lan-see-uh-lit, -leyt ]

adjective

Botany.
  1. inversely lanceolate, as a leaf.


oblanceolate

/ -ˌleɪt; ɒbˈlɑːnsɪəlɪt /

adjective

  1. botany (esp of leaves) having a rounded apex and a tapering base
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of oblanceolate1

First recorded in 1840–50; ob- + lanceolate
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Example Sentences

The fern, known as Tmesipteris oblanceolate, belongs to a primordial group of plants that evolved long before the dinosaurs set foot on the earth.

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Stems low, from a woody base; leaves linear to oblanceolate, or the lower obovate, entire, the stipules leaf-like or small or none; flowers solitary, nodding, 2´´ long, white.

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Leaves.—Two; oval-elliptical to narrowly oblanceolate; four to fifteen inches long; blotched with brown.

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Sonchus oleraceus L. Flowers pale yellow; achenes reddish brown, linear, oblanceolate, 3 mm. long, flattened extremities blunt, 5 uneven wrinkled ridges on each side.

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Leaves oblanceolate, rather regularly pinnatifid, the terminal segment about the same size as the lateral ones Sand Rocket, Diplotaxis muralis. 20b.

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