Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of an arrowhead but with the basal lobes pointing outward at right angles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with a sharp point or head for thrusting or cutting: said of a weapon, such as the spear, pike, partizan, or battle-ax.
- Shaped like the head of a spear; specifically, in botany, triangular nearly down to the base, and then abruptly widened into two lateral lobes at right angles to the principal axis: said chiefly of leaves.
- Also
hastiform .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to a
spear . - adjective botany, of leaves Shaped similarly to a
halberd , withpointed lobes pointed outward from thebase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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English grammar What shape does the word hastate refer to?
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Tannia plants can reach a height of about 2 m and have a short erect stem and large, long-stalked sagittate or hastate leaves, which differ from those of Colocasia in that the leaf stalk joins the blade at the margin between the lobes
Chapter 31 1987
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Radical leaves nine inches long, four inches wide, oval-hastate or halberd-shaped, growing on long footstalks.
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The leaves are doubly hastate or halberd shaped, and somewhat wrinkled: the lower ones measure from twelve to fourteen inches in length, and from six to eight in breadth.
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He stands upright, savage but mild, with his beard in curling prongs, his lean frame, his raiment of camel-skin; we can hear him speaking as he points to the Lamb carrying the hastate cross surrounded by a nimbus, pressing it to his bosom with both hands.
The Cathedral 1877
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I aim to please, so what ever your requirements/needs may be please do not hastate to me and we'll see what we can do.
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a hastate lamina, the form of which is so perfect that were it not from the venation of the sheath it would be considered that there was here a union of two leaves rather than a bifurcation of one.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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