Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sword-shaped; having the form of a sword, either straight or curved, as the legume of a plant; ensiform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.
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- adjective botany
sword -shaped
Etymologies
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Examples
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Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding."
Weblogs Maxine 2009
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Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding."
Pinning one's hamster to the mast Maxine 2008
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Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding."
November 2008 Maxine 2008
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Henry's post starts: "Unafraid as I am to pin my hamster to the mast in a sudden crisis, I shall splench my mainwairing to the thistledown and gladiate hencewithstanding."
Pinning one's hamster to the mast Maxine 2008
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To facilitate the gladiators, but to never gladiate.
Home The Associated Press 2010
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He had good intentions, but like the Steve Taylor song goes, "a politician next door, swore, he'd set the Washington arena on fire, thinks he'll gladiate them, but they're gonna make him a liar."
FREEDOM EDEN 2009
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He had good intentions, but like the Steve Taylor song goes, "a politician next door, swore, he'd set the Washington arena on fire, thinks he'll gladiate them, but they're gonna make him a liar."
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He had good intentions, but like the Steve Taylor song goes, "a politician next door, swore, he'd set the Washington arena on fire, thinks he'll gladiate them, but they're gonna make him a liar."
Spero News 2009
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He had good intentions, but like the Steve Taylor song goes, "a politician next door, swore, he'd set the Washington arena on fire, thinks he'll gladiate them, but they're gonna make him a liar."
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He had good intentions, but like the Steve Taylor song goes, "a politician next door, swore, he'd set the Washington arena on fire, thinks he'll gladiate them, but they're gonna make him a liar."
Spero News 2009
biocon commented on the word gladiate
Gladiate equals ensiform, except shorter and broader (OEM).
December 10, 2011