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Explanate

Ex′pla-nate

,
Adj.
[L.
explanatus
, p. p. of
explanare
. See
Explain
.]
(Bot. & Zoöl.)
Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

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explanate

explanate

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


Latin

Verb

explānāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of explānō

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