sagittate

IPA: sˈædʒʌtʌt

adjective

  • Shaped like an arrowhead, with one point at one end, and two points at the other.
  • (botany, of leaves) Shaped like an arrowhead, with two pointed lobes extending downward from the base.
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Examples of "sagittate" in Sentences

  • They seldom exceed 1in. in diameter, and are of various forms, as heart-shaped, sagittate, oval, tri-lobed, and so on.
  • 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°.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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