Definitions for subulate

subulate su·bu·late

Spelling: [soo-byuh-lit, -leyt]
IPA: /ˈsu byə lɪt, -ˌleɪt/

Subulate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 308 anagrams from letters in subulate (abelstuu).

Definitions for subulate

adjective

  1. slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.

Origin of subulate

1750-60; New Latin sūbulātus, equivalent to Latin sūbul(a) awl + -ātus -ate1

Examples for subulate

Involucral leaves 5–6 (in our species), small, subulate, adnate.

The leaf-sheath is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips.

subulate, awl-shaped; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp point.

The pharyngeal teeth are subulate and acute, and of unequal heights.

Receptacle convex to subulate, chaffy, the scarious chaff not embracing the smooth dorsally compressed achenes.

If the anthers are pulled, the filaments are separated from them and remain as subulate white pointed processes.

Receptacle convex to globose, beset with bristle-like or subulate or short and soft chaff.

Tentacula depressed, subulate, at the external base of which are the eyes.

This applies particularly to the more open leaves: the subulate leaves belong to the next type (see Fig. 27).

It produces millions of leaves, but every one is awl-shaped--subulate.

Word Value for subulate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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