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lanceolate, a. Chiefly in scientific use.|ˈlɑːnsiːələt, -æ-|
[ad. L. lanceolātus, f. lanceola small lance; in med.L. lancet, dim. of lancea lance n.1]
Resembling a spear-head in shape; narrow and tapering to each end.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. (1765) 176 Lanceolate, Spear-shaped; when the Figure is oblong, narrowing gradually at each End towards the Extremity. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxii. 313 Toadflax has linear leaves inclining to lanceolate. 1845Lindley Sch. Bot. iv. (1858) 26 Wood Anemone... Leaflets lanceolate, lobed, and cut. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 69 Loligo vulgaris:..Pen lanceolate, with the shaft produced in front. 1869Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds ii. 46 The broad, flat, and lanceolate form of head is exemplified in certain Tree Snakes.
¶b. Used for ‘lancet-shaped’.
1883Century Mag. Apr. 821/1 The long, shapeless splits in the walls became the delicate lanceolate windows.
c. Comb., signifying ‘lanceolate and{ddd}’, ‘between lanceolate and{ddd}’, as lanceolate-acute, lanceolate-linear, lanceolate-subulate adjs.; also in quasi-Lat. form lanceolato-, as lanceolato-hastate, lanceolato-subulate adjs.
1806J. Galpine Brit. Bot. 184 L[eaves] lanceolato-hastate. 1836Loudon Encycl. Plants 897 Sphagnum cuspidatum..Leaves lanceolato-subulate lax. 1845Lindley Sch. Bot. vi. (1858) 82 Leaves green, smooth, lanceolate-linear. 1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 73 Sep[als] lanceolate-acute. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 240 Sepals slender lanceolate-subulate.
Hence ˈlanceolately adv., in a lanceolate shape. Also lanceoˈlation, the property of being lanceolate (in recent Dicts.).
1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 109 [Closterium] Narrowly lanceolately-fusiform. |