Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like an urn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a pitcher; swelling out like a pitcher as respects the body, and contracted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
- Provided with or contained in an urceolus, as a rotifer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Nat. Hist.) Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contracted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
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- adjective botany
Shaped like anurn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective urn-shaped; large below and contracted toward the mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin urceolātus, from Latin urceolus, diminutive of urceus, jug.]
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From the Latin urceolatus, from urceolus, diminutive of urceus
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Examples
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The female flowers, which are merely composed of a tripid calyx and no corolla, when produced by a tree in full vigor are perfectly urceolate, slightly tinged with green at the base, and well filled by the ovary, whereas the female flowers of weakly trees are entirely yellow, imperfectly urceolate, and approach more to the staminiferous flowers of the male.
knitandpurl commented on the word urceolate
"Saloona observed an urceolate figure who held a jeroboam of frothing liquor."
"The Return of the Fire Witch" by Elizabeth Hand, p 239 of Errantry: Strange Stories
May 1, 2013