hastate

/'hæsteit/

Thân thiện

The leaf of the arrowhead plant is distinctly hastate.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling a spearhead in shape: Specifically used in botany to describe a leaf shape that is triangular, like a spear point, with two pointed lobes that flare outward at the base.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The plant is easily identified by its hastate leaves.
  • Botanists noted the hastate leaf shape in their description of the new species.

Advanced Usage

• Technical Botanical Description: The term is used almost exclusively in scientific or technical botanical contexts to classify and describe leaf morphology.
  • The genus is characterized by its hastate to sagittate leaf forms.

Variants and Related Words

• Hastately (adv): In a hastate manner; with a hastate shape.
  • The leaves are arranged hastately along the stem.
• Sagittate (adj): Another botanical term for an arrowhead-shaped leaf, where the two basal lobes point backward, unlike the outward-flaring lobes of a hastate leaf.

Synonyms

• Spear-shaped: Having the shape of a spear point.
• Triangular: Having three angles and three sides (a more general geometric term that can apply).

Antonyms

• Linear: Long and narrow with parallel sides.
• Ovate: Egg-shaped, with the broader end at the base.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base

Từ đồng nghĩa

• spearhead-shaped