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guttate

guttate adjective: shaped like or resembling drops.

Adjective

guttate (comparative more guttate, superlative most guttate)

  1. Shaped like or resembling drops.
  2. Spotted.

Verb

guttate (third-person singular simple present guttates, present participle guttating, simple past and past participle guttated)

  1. (intransitive) To exude drops of xylem sap on the edges of leaves.
    • Recovery from this extreme wilt began only in the early evening, but by dawn all plants were fully turgid and guttating.1999, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology

guttate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

guttate in Tamil

துளிகள் கொண்டுள்ள, புள்ளிகள் உள்ள

guttate in Urdu

دھبےدار, قطرے دار

Forms of guttate

Adjective
comparativemore guttate
superlativemost guttate
Verb
third-person singular presentguttates
present participleguttating
past participleguttated
pastguttated

Origin of guttate

Partly borrowed from Latin guttātus, partly from gutta + -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from guttate

Questions about guttate

What does guttate mean?
Guttate means shaped like or resembling drops.
What is guttate in Tamil?
Guttate in Tamil is துளிகள் கொண்டுள்ள, புள்ளிகள் உள்ள. See Guttate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is guttate?
Guttate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near guttate in the dictionary

  1. guttae
  2. guttah
  3. guttapercha
  4. guttaperchas
  5. guttas
  6. guttate
  7. guttated
  8. guttately
  9. guttates
  10. guttatim
  11. guttating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guttate (page history and authors); guttate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guttate (Urdu 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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