flabellate

[ fluh-bel-it, -eyt ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. being in the shape of a fan; fan-shaped.

flabellate

/ -eɪt; fləˈbɛlɪt; fləˈbɛlɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. biology shaped like a fan

Word History and Origins

Origin of flabellate¹

1810–20; < Latin flābell ( um ) fan + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Flabellation just means that you fan, Though my aunt caused a scene in Spokane When the temperature flared, And at church, she declared She would flabellate any hot man.

From Washington Post

Flabellate, fl�-bel′āt, adj. fan-shaped—also Flabell′iform.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

P. 1-2 cm. thin, reniform or flabellate, reddish-grey, base downy, whitish; g. distinct, narrow, diverging, watery rufescent; sp.

From Project Gutenberg

Flabellate: with long flat processes folding like a fan.

From Project Gutenberg