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ligulate, a.|ˈlɪgjʊlət|
[f. ligula + -ate3.]
1. Having the form of, or furnished with, a ligula; strap-shaped; Bot. applied esp. to the ray florets of some composite flowers, and to flowers having a monopetalous corolla slit on one side and opened flat.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xix. (1765) 49 Ligulate, when all the Corollulæ..of the Florets are plane, flat,..and expanded towards the outer Side. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. x. (1794) 101 He calls..the semi-florets, ligulate floscules. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 187 The 5 segments that make up the ligulate floret of a Composita. 1839Penny Cycl. XIII. 480/2 Ligulate flowers, are such as have a monopetalous corolla slit on one side and opened flat, as in the Dandelion Lilac. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 580 Axis..of the branchlets ligulate. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 196 Daisy,..Ray-flowers many, 1-seriate, female, ligulate. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 547 When the leaf is ligulate and its insertion broad. 1877Coues & Allen N. Amer. Rodentia 239 The rudimentary pollex of Myodes bears a large ligulate nail.
2. Of letters: Connected by a band.
1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. 75 A good example of ligulate letters, which English antiquaries are familiar with, not only on the pottery, but also on the altars and inscribed tablets of the Anglo-Roman period.
So ˈligulated a., in the same senses.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Ligulated floscules. 1777G. Forster Voy. round World II. 15 Some wore round coronets of the small ligulated feathers of the man of war bird. 1855Mayne Expos. Lex. (s.v. Liguliformis), Ligulated corols. 1864T. Wright in Intell. Observ. No. 34. 231 Doubled or ligulated letters. |