bullate

American  

[bool-eyt, -it, buhl-] / ˈbʊl eɪt, -ɪt, ˈbʌl- /

adjective

1. having the surface covered with irregular and slight elevations, giving a blistered appearance.

2. Anatomy. inflated; vaulted.

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bullate British  

/ ˈbʊl-, -ɪt, ˈbʌleɪt /

adjective

1. botany anatomy puckered or blistered in appearance

   the bullate leaves of the primrose

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Etymology

Origin of bullate

From the Latin word bullātus, dating back to 1810–20. See bulla, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The species name speaks to its bullate leaves, referring to their distinctive blistered or pebbled surface.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021

Mouth.—Labrum moderately bullate, with the lower part more or less produced; crest with blunt, bead-like teeth, and short hairs.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

The object, I suspect, of this bullate form is to give, in the upper part, attachment to longer muscles running to the lateral surfaces of the mandibles, and lower down to the œsophagus.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

P. bullate, obtuse, wavy, covered with dense superficial fibrils, edge at first incurved and with white wool; g. adnate, grey; s. solid, white, fibrillose.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Of money they haue no vse at all, and therefore prefer brasse and steele before other metals, specially bullate, which they vse for swordes, kniues, and other necessaries.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard