combining form of L. lātus broad, as Laticostate a. Zool. [COSTATE], having broad ribs (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1855; and in later Dicts.). Latidentate a. Zool. [DENTATE], having broad teeth (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1855; and in later Dicts.). Latifoliate a. Bot. [FOLIATE] = next (Ogilvie, Suppl., 1855; and in recent Dicts.). Latifolious a. [f. L. lātifoli-us (f. lātus broad + folium leaf) + -OUS], having broad leaves. Latipennate a. Ornith. [PENNATE], having broad wings (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1855); so Latipennine a. (in recent Dicts.). † Latirostrous a. Ornith. [L. rostr-um beak + -OUS], having a broad beak; so Latirostral, Latirostrate adjs. (in recent Dicts.). Latisept a. Bot. [SEPTUM], having a broad septum. Latisternal a. [STERNUM], having a broad breast-bone.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., *Latifolious.
1797. Encycl. Brit., IX. 581/1. The latifolious, or everlasting pea.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxv. 172. Yet have they a knowne and open disadvantage from an other, which is not common unto any singing bird wee know, that is a flat bill: For no *Latirostrous animal … were ever commended for their note. Ibid. (1650), V. i. 234. Latirostrous or flat bild birdes.
1877. A. W. Bennett, trans. Thomé’s Bot., 413. The silicula is said to be angustisept … or *latisept.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N.Y.), XII. 324. They [anthropoid apes] have a sternum, and are therefore sometimes called *latisternal apes.
