[ad. Lat. bullāt-us, having bubbles.]
1. Bot. Having blisters; inflated: said of leaves, in which the surface rises in a convexity between the veins.
1819. Pantologia, s.v. Bullate leaf, in botany, when the substance rises high above the veins, so as to appear like blisters.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 465. Clothed with large bullate acuminate pale scales.
2. Phys. Having bullæ or puffy excrescences on the surface.
1872. Mivart, Elem. Anat., 111. The pterygoid may be swollen and bullate, as in the Mole.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 293. This is principally composed of a large bullate labium.
