Definition of peltate in English:
peltate
adjective ˈpɛlteɪtˈpɛlteɪt
Botany 1Shield-shaped.
Example sentencesExamples
- This fertile zone consists of an internode bearing small sporangiophores with peltate sporophyll shields.
- The glandular trichomes were peltate glands, consisting of medullar and cortical cells, which differed structurally.
- The density of peltate glandular trichomes on the abaxial surface of a fully developed leaf is typically about 1600 per cm.
- Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
- Reports indicate that, within the family, different species can have both peltate and capitate trichomes, peltate or capitate only or, more rarely, neither.
- 1.1 (of a leaf) more or less circular, with the stalk attached at a point on the underside.
Example sentencesExamples
- The glandular trichomes of birch leaves belong to the peltate type and consisted of cortical and medullar cells, tightly covered by cuticle, which had no ruptures in young trichomes.