glabrate

[ gley-breyt, -brit ]

adjective

1. Zoology. glabrous.
2. Botany. becoming glabrous; somewhat glabrous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glabrate¹

1855–60; < Latin glabrātus (past participle of glabrāre to make bare, deprive of hair), equivalent to glabr-, stem of glaber without hair, smooth + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Leaves crowded, thick, often coarsely toothed, sparingly villous-tomentose; peduncles very short; tails villous or glabrate, not plumose.—Mo. and Kan. § 3.

From Project Gutenberg

L. mìnor, L. Rather strict, 1° high or more, usually glabrate in age; leaves of radical shoots lanceolate, rigid, 2–3´´ long, the cauline linear, 6–9´´ long; pod about 1´´ high.—Dry and sterile ground; common.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaves soft-pubescent when young, becoming glabrate; leaflets rhombic-obovate or ovate, unequally cut-toothed, 1–3´ long, the terminal one cuneate at base and sometimes 3-cleft; flowers pale yellow.

From Project Gutenberg

Seeds quadrate or oblong with truncate ends, mealy-pubescent or glabrate; hilum linear.

From Project Gutenberg

Annual, slender, low-climbing, pubescent; leaflets oblong-lanceolate or ovate-oblong to linear, not lobed, 1´ long; pod pubescent, 1´ long, flattish; seeds as in the last, very finely mealy, soon glabrate.

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Related Words

• bald
• clean-shaven
• shaved