galeate

English

Alternative forms

• galeated

Etymology

From Latin galeatus, past participle of galeare (“helmet”).

Adjective

galeate (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a galea.
2. (botany) Helmet-shaped.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →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.

Latin

Adjective

galeāte

1. vocative masculine singular of galeātus