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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2018-01-03 07:42 am

sagittate

sagittate (SAJ-i-tait) - adj., shaped like an arrowhead.


Specifically, with one point at one end and two points or lobes at the other. Most often used in botany to describe leaves such as this type:


A sagittate leaf
Thanks, American Heritage Dictionary

Adopted in the 1750s from Scientific Latin sagittātus, from Latin sagitta, arrow.

---L.

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