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Lanceolate   /lˈænsiəlˌeɪt/   Listen
Lanceolate

adjective
1.
(of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex.  Synonym: lancelike.



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"Lanceolate" Quotes from Famous Books



... subglobose, then expanded or even depressed, white, the brownish or yellowish cuticule breaking up into scales on the disk; gills close, lanceolate, remote, white, then green; stem firm, equal or tapering upward, subbulbous, smooth, webby-stuffed, whitish tinged with brown; ring rather large, movable as you will observe in Figure 35. Flesh of both pileus and stem white, changing to a reddish, then to yellowish ...
— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard

... figs (FICUS OPPOSITA) displays such remarkable inconsistency that until reassured by many examples it is difficult to credit an undoubted fact. The typical leaf is oblong elliptical, while individual plants produce lanceolate leaves with two short lateral lobes, with many intermediate forms. As the plant develops, the abnormal forms tend to disappear, though mature plants occasionally retain them. There seems to exist correlation between foliage and fruit, for branches ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield



Words linked to "Lanceolate" :   lanceolate spleenwort, simple, lancelike, unsubdivided, lanceolate leaf



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