spatulate

IPA: spˈætʃʌɫeɪt

verb

  • To treat or mix with a spatula.
  • To incise the end of a pliable cylindrical structure such that the cut end can be splayed apart and flattened

adjective

  • Shaped like a spatula; having a rounded, flattened extremity.
  • (botany) Of a leaf: having a broad, flat end and tapering into a narrower base.
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Examples of "spatulate" in Sentences

  • It's bill is longer and more spatulate.
  • This species has a large spatulate bill.
  • The 4 petals are white and spatulate in shape.
  • The leaves are linear spatulate curving upwards.
  • It has thin upper leaves and spatulate basal leaves.
  • Leaves may be spatulate, rounded, or obtuse at the apex.
  • Snout moderately depressed, not spatulate; eye rather small.
  • The petals are spatulate with very obtuse and concave apices.
  • Her spatulate fingers tapped the floor plans of 5 Curzon Close.
  • Broad spatulate leaves of olive and black backed the green bloom.
  • The most distinctive feature of this species is its spatulate bill.
  • Her hands are spatulate and flat-nailed, pale, like the rest of her.
  • The broad, acute leaves are elliptic, spatulate or spatulate oblanceolate.
  • He tells us that a character dug in the dirt with “the tines of his stubby and spatulate fingers.”
  • Viz inspected each wing in turn, men his enormous, formidably clawed feet, lastly the broad, spatulate tail.
  • His arms were long, his hands huge, with spatulate, magnetic fingers and the soft, unerring touch of a poolshark.
  • Curved on top, perfectly spatulate nails (a sign of intuitive insight), a healthy shell pink, crowning long, slender pianist fingers.
  •  He noticed for the millionth time that her fingertips were slightly spatulate, as if her body needed to touch more, feel more than other people.
  • If we no longer understand a word they are saying, then we may want to turn to those still willing to call a ‘spade’ a spade rather than a ‘fabricated long-handled domestic or industrial spatulate tool designed to lift and move material from one place to another’.

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