Definitions for valvate

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valvate val·vate

Spelling: [val-veyt]

IPA: /ˈvæl veɪt/

Valvate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in valvate (aaeltvv).

Definitions for valvate

adjective

1. furnished with or opening by a valve or valves.
2. serving as or resembling a valve.
3. Botany. opening by valves, as certain capsules and anthers. meeting without overlapping, as the parts of certain buds. composed of or characterized by such parts.

Origin of valvate

First recorded in 1820-30, valvate is from the Latin word valvātus with folding doors. See valve, -ate¹

Examples for valvate

To Santalaceæ they approach in processes, valvate corolla, and placentation, also to Loranthaceæ.

Corolla 4-parted, rarely 3-parted, wheel-shaped, valvate in the bud.

Corolla tubular-funnel-form, 5-lobed at the summit, valvate in bud.

Sepals 4, or rarely more, colored, the valvate margins turned inward in the bud.

Reduplicate (in stivation), valvate with the margins turned outwards, 97.

Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted and valvate in bud; of the fertile, 3–5-parted.

Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate.

Cones globular, with peltate, valvate scales, firmly closed till ripe; the scales thick and pointed at the center.

From Uvaria the Cananga differs in its valvate petals, and from Unona in the arrangement of the seeds in two rows.

Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed.