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- adjective A botanical descriptor, applied to leaves and some animals, meaning "to have the form of an
arrowhead , but lacking flaring lobes on the base". Sagittiform leaves lack divisions and subdivisions.
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- adjective (of a leaf shape) like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
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Turning calmly to depart, as he sinks below the crest of the hill a sagittiform bullet, fired at five hundred yards 'distance with all the science and talent purchasable with thirteen dollars a month and rations, plumps into the rump of his unhappy pony, and the Stoic of the woods is unhorsed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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