peltiform
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
peltiform (comparative more peltiform, superlative most peltiform)
- shield-like, with the outline nearly circular; peltate
- 1831, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine:
- The seedlings will, in the first year, have only cotyledonal leaves; in the second, peltiform ones
References edit
- “peltiform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.