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subulate, a. Bot. and Zool.|ˈsjuːbjʊlət| [ad. mod.L. sūbulātus, f. sūbula awl: see -ate2. Cf. F. subulé.] Awl-shaped; slender and tapering to a point.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xiii. (1765) 31 Subulate, Awl⁓shaped. 1785Phil. Trans. LXXV. 9 Our bird..has a weak, slender, subulate bill. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. xiii. (1794) 132 Flowers in a spike, with a subulate receptacle. 1817Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xvii. II. 33 Their long and large head, armed with very long subulate mandibles. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 303 Margin unevenly fringed with somewhat roughened subulate hairs. Comb.1845Lindley Sch. Bot. viii. (1858) 136 Radical leaves subulate-striated. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 206 Involucral bracts..subulate-lanceolate. So ˈsubulated a., with comb. form ˈsubulato-.
1752Hill Hist. Anim. 495 The beak of the Sturnus is of a subulated figure. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. xx. (1765) 118 The upper Filament is subulato-setose. 1773G. White Selborne, To Barrington 8 July, The hippoboscæ hirundinis, with narrow subulated wings. 1833Hooker in Smith Eng. Flora V. i. 21 Leaves subulato-setaceous. |