explanate

[ eks-pluh-neyt, eks-pley-neyt ]

adjective

, Botany, Zoology.

1. flattened; spread out.

Word History and Origins

Origin of explanate¹

1840–50; < Latin explānātus, past participle of explānāre to explain; -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Explanate, spread or flattened out.

From Project Gutenberg

Easily known by its long, tubular sporangia packed with rusty spores and destitute of any trace of columella or capillitium, the hypothallus explanate, rather thick, but not columnar.

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The pileus is explanate, white, fibrillose, dry, striate, center slightly depressed when mature.

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The plant is small, waxy-pliant, somewhat coriaceous, cup-shaped, then explanate, confluent, marginate, externally white-tomentose.

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The pileus is white, corky, horizontal, explanate, reniform, subsessile, azonate, finely pubescent, becoming smooth.

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