sagittate
pronunciation
How to pronounce sagittate in British English:
UK ['sædʒɪteɪt]
How to pronounce sagittate in American English:
US ['sædʒɪˌteɪt]
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- Adjective:
- of a leaf shape; like an arrow head without flaring base lobes
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Flowers bisexual ; basal leaves neither hastate nor sagittate .
- 2. Flowers unisexual and plants dioecious ; basal leaves hastate or sagittate .
- 3. Twining herbs ; leaves sagittate , cordate , or hastate basally , petiolate or subsessile .
- 4. Leaves mostly floating ; leaf blade venation primarily palmate , base cordate to sagittate , margin entire to dentate , sometimes slightly peltate .
- 5. Genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers .