Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having angles or an angular shape.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become angular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make angular or angulate.
- Formed with angles or corners; of an angular form; angled; cornered: as, angulate stems, leaves, petioles, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having angles or corners; angled.
- transitive verb To make angular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped with corners or
angles . - adjective botany, zoology The shape of
stems ,leaves andwings . - verb To make, or to become,
angular
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having angles or an angular shape
- verb make or become angular
Etymologies
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Examples
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These include the angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata); parrot-beaked tortoise (Homopus areolatus); geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus, EN); and leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis).
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So he grabs his smartphone and powers up Navizon, a system he developed that can tri-angulate his position by taking readings from Wi-Fi hot spots or cellular towers.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #114 2006
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The last whorl is acutely angulate posteriorly, and the spire is tabulated, giving to the shell a peculiar truncate appearance.
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Obtuse-angulate: two markings or margins meeting so as to form an obtuse angle.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Projectile than angulate Sirius, the officers held them fast to their eyes for five minutes at a time, and then took them away only to talk with remarkable fluency on what they had not discovered.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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The last whorl is acutely angulate posteriorly, and the spire is tabulated, giving to the shell a peculiar truncate appearance.
Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart John McDouall Stuart 1840
reesetee commented on the word angulate
having an angular form
June 12, 2007