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rosulate

rosulate adjective: arranged in small rose-like clusters.

Adjective

rosulate (comparative more rosulate, superlative most rosulate)

  1. Arranged in small rose-like clusters.
    • It appears to claim a very close relationship to the preceding species, differing chiefly in the tiny leaves being rather more rosulate than caudiculate, and in not being adpressed, but rather the reverse; its petals, also, are narrower.1874, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches, volume 5, page 326
    • In young plants, the leaves are often more or less arranged in four vertical ranks, but become more rosulate with age.1950, Gilbert Westacott Reynolds, The Aloes of South Africa, page 494

Forms of rosulate

comparativemore rosulate
superlativemost rosulate

Origin of rosulate

New Latin rosulatus, from rosa (“a rose”).

Questions about rosulate

What does rosulate mean?
Rosulate means arranged in small rose-like clusters.
What part of speech is rosulate?
Rosulate is an adjective.

Words near rosulate in the dictionary

  1. rostrums
  2. rosts
  3. rosula
  4. rosulae
  5. rosular
  6. rosulate
  7. rosuvastatin
  8. Roswell
  9. Roswellian
  10. Roswells
  11. rosy

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