ligulate

[ lig-yuh-lit, -leyt ]

adjective

1. having or forming a ligula.
2. having the shape of a strap.

ligulate

/ ˈlɪɡjʊlɪt; -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having the shape of a strap
2. biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula

Word History and Origins

Origin of ligulate¹

First recorded in 1745–55; ligul(a) + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Rays present; i.e. the marginal flowers or some of them with ligulate corollas.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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Heads discoid, the flowers all alike and tubular; or else radiate, the outer ones ligulate and pistillate.

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Head many-flowered; ray-flowers in several rows, narrowly ligulate, pistillate, fertile; disk-flowers with undivided style, sterile.

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Leaves large, incubous, complicate-bilobed; lower lobe ligulate, suberect; underleaves similar, decurrent at base, the apex entire.

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