Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Awlshaped; subuliform; in bot., zoöl., etc., slender, more or less cylindrical, and tapering to a point. See
awl-shaped , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
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- adjective biology
Awl -shaped; tapering into asharp point from abroader base .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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AUSTRALIS, but the leaflets are fewer and smaller, and the subulate glands of that species are wanting. —
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The _first glume_ is lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, 2-nerved, flattened dorsally, coriaceous at the base and hyaline above it, and with smooth incurved margins.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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_Involucels_ usually with two, rarely three spikelets, loosely imbricate, rounded at the base; the inner bristles are erect, dorsally flat, subulate-lanceolate, puberulous and with thickened margins, about 1/8 inch long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _L. spica_, which is the only species besides _L. vera_ hardy in this country, was formerly considered only a variety of _L. vera_; it is distinguished by its lower habit, much whiter color, the leaves more congested at the base of the branches, the spikes denser and shorter, the floral leaves lanceolate or linear, and the presence of linear and subulate bractes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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If the anthers are pulled, the filaments are separated from them and remain as subulate white pointed processes.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Female spikelets are collected in large globose heads of stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like processes surrounded by shorter subulate bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Dianthoides, several Astragali, one with the pinnulae dentato serratis, petiola spinosa, a tufted Monocotyledonous plant with terete canaliculate subulate leaves, _Salvia_, Gramen alterum, Composita dislocata,
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The _inflorescence_ is 1 to 3 inches long, consisting of distant sessile fascicles of four to six spikelets; the _rachis_ of the spike is flexuous; the _rachis_ of the fascicles ends in three subulate empty glumes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
fbharjo commented on the word subulate
get to the point, or I blow this joint
May 12, 2008