Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany and zoology, fan-shaped; flabellate.

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

  • adjective Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.

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

  • adjective Shaped like a fan; flabellate

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Examples

  • The third and the fourth glumes embracing the fifth and the sixth are empty, flabelliform, 4-lobed, and dorsally shortly awned.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

  • The _third_ and _fourth glumes_ are half-amplexicaul, empty, epaleate, flabelliform, 4-lobed, 7-nerved, shortly awned at the back, villous; the side lobes are acuminate or aristate and the central lobes are shortly awned.

    A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

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