English

Adjective

explanate ‎(comparative more explanate, superlative most explanate)

1. (botany) Flat; flattened.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 4

     […] it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.

Antonyms

• inflated

Latin

Verb

explānāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explānō

References

• explanate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• explanate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “explanate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.