peltatedadj.
/pɛlˈteɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpɛlˌteɪdᵻd/ Botany. Now rare or disused.
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peltated1753
peltate1760
scutate1836
thyroid1900
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Peltated leaf,..the petiole of which is affixed to the disk.
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. III. 233 [The Monodelphia polyandria is] decorated with heart-shaped-angular, and oval palmated, and peltated angulated leaves.
1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. x. 369 Directly to the westward..is a lake..now, in autumn, almost entirely overspread with the peltated leaf of the nymphæa nelumbo, or lien-wha of the Chinese.
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. xxix. 283 The silver-lined peltated leaves of the tall ‘Sloth-tree.’
1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3183/1 Leaves that are joined to their stalks at or near the centre are said to be peltate, or peltated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1753- by such manner wise
- by suing
- by sum
- by sundries
- by sundry wise
- by supposal
- by supposals
- by supposing
- by surreption
- by tail
- by tale
- by task
- by telephone
- by terms
- by that
- by that mean
- by that means
- by that moyen
- by that time
- by that time that
- by that token
- by the a wind
- by the alphabet
- by the bar
- by the benefit of