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ansate

ansate adjective: that has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.

Adjective

ansate (not comparable)

  1. That has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
    • The decoration of this feature is singular for it displays in relief an ansate, oval dish complete with offerings.1973, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Archaeologia Aeliana: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 124
    • In cats, the ansate sulcus forms a posterior boundary for much of SI, and the coronal sulcus functions as a jugular sulcus demarcating forelimb and face projections.1990, John Irwin Jones, Chapter 15: Comparative Development of Somatic Sensory Cortex, Edward G. Jones, Alan Peters (editors), Cerebral Cortex, Volume 8B: Comparative Structure and Evolution of...
    Synonyms:
    ansated

ansate meaning in Tamil

ansate in Tamil

கைப்பிடியுடைய

Synonyms of ansate

Origin of ansate

Learned borrowing from Latin ansātus (“handled; having handles”), from ansa (“handle”).

Words formed from ansate

Phrases with ansate

Questions about ansate

What does ansate mean?
Ansate means that has a handle or a part that resembles a handle.
What is ansate in Tamil?
Ansate in Tamil is கைப்பிடியுடைய. See Ansate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ansate?
Ansate is an adjective.

Words near ansate in the dictionary

  1. ansaphones
  2. Ansar
  3. Ansar al-Sharia
  4. Ansari
  5. Ansaris
  6. ansate
  7. ansate cross
  8. ansate crosses
  9. ansated
  10. Ansatsuken
  11. ansatz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ansate (page history and authors); ansate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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