a. [ad. mod.L. urceolatus, f. L. urceolus URCEOLUS.]
1. Having the shape of an urn or pitcher; esp. in Bot., Anat., etc.
a. 1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., III. xxii. (1765), 229. The Corolla is Urceolate, Pitcher-shaped, when it is inflate and gibbous on all Sides, after the Manner of that Vessel.
1776. Martyn, Lett., xxvi. (1785), 408. An urceolate or pitcher-shaped stigma.
1821. W. P. C. Barton, Flora N. Amer., I. 14. Calix regularly urceolate.
1832. Lindley, Introd. Bot., 104. They thus form a single urceolate body.
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 216. Hymenium urceolate, black; stem short.
b. 1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 423. In the Rutelidæ, the labium is urecolate.
1847. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 4/1. Capsule Animalcules…; body … covered with a univalve urceolate or scutellate shell.
1867. Murchison, Siluria, ix. (ed. 4), 203. The glabella has only two pairs of furrows and is long and urceolate.
c. 1823. Christie’s Catal. Grk. Vases of Englefield, 18. A Small Vase (urceolate) with triply-scalloped lip.
1833. Christie & Manson’s Catal. Grk. Pottery, etc. 8. A one-handled urceolate vase.
2. ‘Provided with or contained in an urceolus, as a rotifer’ (Cent. Dict., 1891).
