Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the shape of an arrowhead.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like the head of an arrow; sagittal; specifically, in botany, triangular, with a deep sinus at the base, the lobes not pointing outward. Compare hastate. See also cut under Sagittaria.
  • In entomology, having the form of a barbed arrow-head.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point a one end, and two points at the other.
  • adjective botany, of leaves Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sagitta, arrow + –ate.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin sagitta ("arrow").

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sagittate.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.