Definitions for lanceolate

lanceolate lan·ce·o·late

Spelling: [lan-see-uh-leyt, -lit]
IPA: /ˈlæn si əˌleɪt, -lɪt/

Lanceolate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 422 anagrams from letters in lanceolate (aaceellnot).

Definitions for lanceolate

adjective

  1. shaped like the head of a lance.
  2. narrow, and tapering toward the apex or sometimes at the base, as a leaf.

Origin of lanceolate

1750-60; Latin lanceolātus armed with a small lance, equivalent to lanceol(a) small lance (lance(a) lance1 + -ola -ole1

Examples for lanceolate

The second glume is lanceolate, acute, as long as the first, 3-nerved.

Palea canary yellow to light-brown, lanceolate with Fig. 60.

The first two glumes are unequal, oblong or lanceolate, 1-nerved.

lanceolate: lance- or spear-shaped: oblong and tapering to the end.

Each flat lamellar spine exhibits an elevated middle rib (like a lanceolate leaf), and is therefore compressed quadrangular.

The first two glumes are membranous, lanceolate, and subequal.

All three arms of the same form, lanceolate, twice to three times as long as broad, twice as broad in the middle as at either end.

The two-edged spines may be occasionally shorter, triangular or lanceolate, at other times longer sword-shaped or linear.

The fourth glume is coriaceous, lanceolate, bisexual or female.

The tetraspores are similarly situated in stalked, lanceolate leaflets.

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