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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