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papilionate

papilionate adjective: butterfly-like, with a corolla, as that of a pea.

Adjective

papilionate (not comparable)

  1. Butterfly-like, with a corolla, as that of a pea.

Origin of papilionate

From Latin pāpiliō(n) (“butterfly”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about papilionate

What does papilionate mean?
Papilionate means butterfly-like, with a corolla, as that of a pea.
What part of speech is papilionate?
Papilionate is an adjective.

Words near papilionate in the dictionary

  1. papilio
  2. papiliochrome
  3. papiliochromes
  4. papilioerythrinone
  5. papilionaceous
  6. papilionate
  7. papilionid
  8. papilionids
  9. papilionoid
  10. papilionoids
  11. papilios

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