galeate

[ gey-lee-eyt ]

adjective

1. having a galea.
2. being in the shape of a helmet; helmet-shaped.

Word History and Origins

Origin of galeate¹

1700–10; < Latin galeātus covered with a helmet, equivalent to gale ( a ) helmet + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Upper lip of corolla not galeate or concave.

From Project Gutenberg

Decumbent, pinnately branching, the short fertile branch lateral; leaves subvertical, suborbicular, obtuse, entire; lower lobe obovate-cucullate or galeate, subappressed; underleaves cordate or rounded, sinuate-subdentate, slightly bifid; perianth oblong, triquetrous, convex dorsally, strongly keeled ventrally.—On rocks and trees, N. Y. to Ohio, and southward; rather common.

From Project Gutenberg

Galeate, shaped like a helmet.

From Project Gutenberg

They are of the same galeate form as in many others of the Escharinae, but are not as in them placed above the mouth of the cell, but below it in front: and in all cases the shape of the ovicell-bearing cell is much altered from the rest, and in all the vittate species the cell upon which the ovicell is produced arises from its predecessor, not with the intervention of a short tube, but is immediately sessile upon it, by a broad base. a.

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