Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, spurred; furnished with spurs or spur-like processes: as, a calcarate corolla, such as that of larkspur.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Armed with a spur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, zoology Having a
spur ;spurred .
Etymologies
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Latin
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Calcaratum ne£tarium; a calcarate or fpur - fhaped nectary.
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