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galeate

galeate

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

galeate (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a galea.
  2. (botany) Helmet-shaped.
    • 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.

Latin

Adjective

galeāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of galeātus