VALVATE Definition & Meaning

valvate

[ val-veyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
serving as or resembling a valve.
Botany.
1. opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers.
2. meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds.
3. composed of or characterized by such parts.

valvate

/ ˈ��æ��ɪ�� /

adjective

furnished with a valve or valves
functioning as or resembling a valve
botany
1. having or taking place by means of valves
  valvate dehiscence
2. (of petals or sepals in the bud) having the margins touching but not overlapping

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of valvate¹

First recorded in 1820–30, valvate is from the Latin word ��ٳܲ� with folding doors. See valve, -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.

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Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted and valvate in bud; of the fertile, 3–5-parted.

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Flowers regular, 4–5-merous, the corolla mostly valvate.

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Stamens as many as the valvate corolla-lobes.

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Shrubs with watery juice, usually climbing by tendrils, with small regular flowers, a minute or truncated calyx, its limb mostly obsolete, and the stamens as many as the valvate petals and opposite them!

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