[1810–20; ‹ L flābell(um) fan + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dominance, knockout, rationalize, triangulation, voodoo-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'flabellate' in a sentence
flabellate
The leaves show a flabellate acrodromous to parallelodromous venation pattern, with several primary, secondary and higher order cross-veins.
B. Mohr, C. Rydin 2002, 'Trifurcatia flabellata n. gen. n. sp., a putative monocotyledon angiospermfrom the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation (Brazil)', Fossil Recordhttp://www.foss-rec.net/5/335/2002/fr-5-335-2002.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)