explanate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin explanatus (“flattened”).
Adjective
editexplanate (comparative more explanate, superlative most explanate)
- (botany) Flat; flattened.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
- […] it has been transformed, except in a few taxa where lobules are always explanate, into a galeate water-sac, which is formed wholly from the lobule, with the external surface from the adaxial leaf surface.
Antonyms
editLatin
editVerb
editexplānāte
References
edit- “explanate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “explanate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- explanate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
editVerb
editexplanate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of explanar combined with te