sagittiform

English

Adjective

sagittiform (comparative more sagittiform, superlative most sagittiform)

  1. A botanical descriptor, applied to leaves and some animals, meaning "to have the form of an arrowhead, but lacking flaring lobes on the base". Sagittiform leaves lack divisions and subdivisions.
    This tree has sagittiform leaves.

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