ligulate

American  

[lig-yuh-lit, -leyt] / ˈlɪg yə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

Also ligulated

adjective

1. having or forming a ligula.

2. having the shape of a strap.

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ligulate British  

/ ˈlɪɡjʊlɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

1. having the shape of a strap

2. biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula

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Etymology

Origin of ligulate

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, e.g. in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Frond wholly divided into narrow ligulate, dichotomous, bi or multiserial branches; no vibracula.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.