< L glabratus, pp. of glabrare, lit., to make smooth, deprive of hair < glaber: see glabrous
glabrate in American English
(ˈɡleibreit, -brɪt)
adjective
1. Zoology
glabrous
2. Botany
becoming glabrous; somewhat glabrous
Word origin
[1855–60; ‹ L glabrātus (ptp. of glabrāre to make bare, deprive of hair), equiv. to glabr-, s. of glaber without hair, smooth + -ātus-ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barrage, boilerplate, keyword, pickup, pipeline-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 'glabrate' in a sentence
glabrate
Compound leaves present leaflets with acuminate apex and asymmetric base, glabrate in the adaxial and pubescent in abaxial surface.
Kathia Socorro Mathias Mourão, Elfriede Marianne Bacchi, Adriana Lenita Meyer Albiero 2001, 'Caracterização anatômica das folhas, frutos e sementes de Sapindus saponariaL. (Sapindaceae) Anatomical features of leaves, fruits and seeds of Sapindus saponariaL. (Sapindaceae)', Acta Scientiarum : Biological Scienceshttp://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/2733. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)