dolabrate

Thân thiện

The leaf has a dolabrate shape.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having the shape of an ax head or cleaver head: Describes an object, typically a leaf or a botanical structure, whose shape resembles the broad, often triangular blade of an ax, hatchet, or cleaver.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The plant's leaves are distinctly dolabrate, tapering to a point like an ax head.
  • Botanists identified the species by its dolabrate leaf shape.

Advanced Usage

• Technical/Botanical Context: The term is almost exclusively used in scientific descriptions, particularly in botany and biology, to precisely describe the morphology of leaves, scales, or other plant parts.
  • The seed bracts are dolabrate, a key diagnostic feature for this genus.

Variants and Related Words

• Dolabriform (adj): A synonym meaning ax-shaped. This is the more commonly used variant in technical literature.
  • The fossil showed dolabriform appendages.

Synonyms

• Ax-shaped
• Cleaver-shaped
• Dolabriform

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dolabriform