Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of an arrowhead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like the head of an arrow; sagittal; specifically, in botany, triangular, with a deep sinus at the base, the lobes not pointing outward. Compare
hastate . See also cut underSagittaria . - In entomology, having the form of a barbed arrow-head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like an
arrowhead , with onepoint a oneend , and two points at the other. - adjective botany, of leaves Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed
lobes extending downward from thebase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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They seldom exceed 1in. in diameter, and are of various forms, as heart-shaped, sagittate, oval, tri-lobed, and so on.
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The leaves are large, numerous, ovate-sagittate, from ten to eleven inches long, and nearly five inches in width; the radical leaves are slightly blistered, and of a dark, shining green color.
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The water-lilies are a well known instance, exhibiting sagittate leaves in the juvenile stage and changing in many species, into nearly circular peltate forms, of which _Victoria regia_ is a very good example, although its younger stages do not always excite all the interest they deserve.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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This belt is divided into four spaces, in each of which there is a checkered, terraced pyramid pointing downward; the lower part and sides of each space is occupied with triangular and sagittate figures.
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In such a site in the temperate zone, the cyperaceous and gramineous plants would have formed vast meadows; here the soil abounded in aquatic plants, with sagittate leaves, and especially in basil plants, among which we noticed the fine flowers of the costus, the thalia, and the heliconia.
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An arum, with a woody stem, and with large sagittate leaves, rose in the very middle of a pool the temperature of which was 70°.
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Among the sedges by the river we found the KYLLINGA MONOCEPHALA; and, on the rich black clayed soil near it, a species of bindweed out of flower, with large sagittate leaves: in the scrubs back from the river, grew a small bush, about four feet high, which has been considered either a variety of
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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An arum, with a woody stem, and with large sagittate leaves, rose in the very middle of a pool the temperature of which was 70 degrees.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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In such a site in the temperate zone, the cyperaceous and gramineous plants would have formed vast meadows; here the soil abounded in aquatic plants, with sagittate leaves, and especially in basil plants, among which we noticed the fine flowers of the costus, the thalia, and the heliconia.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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