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urceolate, a.|ˈɜːsiːələt| [ad. mod.L. urceolatus, f. L. urceolus urceolus.] 1. Having the shape of an urn or pitcher; esp. in Bot., Anat., etc. a.1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. (1765) 229 The Corolla is Urceolate, Pitcher-shaped, when it is inflate and gibbous on all Sides, after the Manner of that Vessel. 1776Martyn Lett. xxvi. (1785) 408 An urceolate or pitcher-shaped stigma. 1821W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 14 Calix regularly urceolate. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 104 They thus form a single urceolate body. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 216 Hymenium urceolate, black; stem short. b.1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 423 In the Rutelidæ, the labium is urceolate. 1847Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 4/1 Capsule Animalcules..; body..covered with a univalve urceolate or scutellate shell. 1867Murchison Siluria ix. (ed. 4) 203 The glabella has only two pairs of furrows and is long and urceolate. c.1823Christie's Catal. Grk. Vases of Englefield 18 A small Vase (urceolate) with triply-scalloped lip. 1833Christie & Manson's Catal. Grk. Pottery, etc. 8 A one-handled urceolate vase. 2. ‘Provided with or contained in an urceolus, as a rotifer’ (Cent. Dict., 1891). |