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spatulate /ˈspatjʊlət /adjective1Having a broad, rounded end: his thick, spatulate fingers...- The skin was thin and bloodless, the fingers spatulate, a swollen knob at each joint and knuckle.
- I had never seen these spatulate fingers, until my first boyfriend on our first date reached over to hold my hand.
1.1 (also spathulate) Botany & Zoology Broad at the apex and tapered to the base: large spatulate leaves...- The dorsal vertebrae have wide spatulate neural spines.
- The upper and lower incisors are broad and spatulate.
- The skull is clearly broader and more spatulate, as well as longer, than the skull of Loxomma.
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