explanate

English

Etymology

From Latin explanatus (“flattened”).

Adjective

explanate (comparative more explanate, superlative most explanate)

1. (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

• inflated

Latin

Verb

explānāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of explānō

References

• “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

Verb

explanate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of explanar combined with te