a. [f. prec. + -ATE2.] Spatulate, spatular. Chiefly Bot.

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1821.  W. P. C. Barton, Flora N. Amer., I. 34. Flowers large, petals spathulate.

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1826.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 647. The shape and figure … of scales are very various,… some nearly round,… others spathulate.

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1857.  Henfrey, Bot., § 88. When the blade passes still more gradually into a broad-winged stalk, a spathulate form results.

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1882.  Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 529. The lower ones are entirely free, sickle-shaped and pointed, the upper ones broadly spathulate and coherent at their base.

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  So Spathulated ppl. a. rare.

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1821.  W. P. C. Barton, Flor N. Amer., I. 120. Radical leaves numerous, spathulated, ciliated, and slightly pubescent.

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1859.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1178/1. The Spondylus spathuliferus has its shell charged with many rows of simple and spathulated scales.

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